Pietro Andrea Canonieri (1582–1639) was an Italian writer of Baroque treatises on morality, politics and poetry.
Canonieri was born at Rossiglione (Genoa) in the second half of the 16th century, the son of a doctor.
[1] He left Rome for Madrid, perhaps in order to enrol in the Spanish Army for a short period.
By December 1611, he was living in the Low Countries, practicing medicine in Antwerp.
[1] He is the author of a large number of political tracts, the best known of which are Il perfetto cortegiano et dell'uffizio del prencipe verso il cortegiano and commentaries on Tacitus (both 1609), and Dell'introduzione alla politica, alla ragion di stato e alla pratica del buon governo (1614).