Pandolfo Collenuccio (7 January 1444 – 11 June 1504) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, Civil Servant and writer.

[1] Collenuccio served as a diplomat and civic official for numerous Italian city-states: the Bentivoglio appointed him giudice to the Disco dell'orso in Bologna (1473–1474); he later rose to the position of procuratore generale in Pesaro for the Sforza, but was dismissed when Giovanni Sforza succeeded in 1483.

Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara valued his diplomatic skills and employed him on sensitive missions to Pope Alexander VI (1494) and Cesare Borgia (1500).

[2] Pandolfo became an object of suspicion to Giovanni Sforza, who accused him of a secret correspondence with Casare Borgia, and had him thrown into prison.

His six Latin and Italian dialogues, the Apologi (published posthumously in 1526), draw on Aesop and Lucian to promote a pleasant, practical morality.