Andrea Matteo Acquaviva

Who was Andrea Matteo Acquaviva?

Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, 8th Duca d'Atri was an Italian nobleman and condottiero from the Kingdom of Naples, 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.