Andrea Matteo Acquaviva

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Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, 8th Duca d'Atri (1456—1528) was a Neapolitan nobleman and condottiero, who distinguished himself as a partisan of the French. He was made prisoner by Consalvo of Cordova and carried into Spain; but his confinement was not long, and on his return to Naples he became the patron of letters. To literary men he was indeed a benefactor—hence the encomia which have been lavished upon him, and which, more than any merity of his own, obtained him distinction. Yet he wrote one book at least, a commentary on the Latin translation of Plutarch's Moralia. <ref name=newgenbio>Rose, Hugh James [1853] (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.</ref>