Niccolò Speziale di Noto, Viceroy of Sicily 1423 - 1424, and 1425–1432, was a personal Sicilian vassal of Aragonese Infante John of Aragon, Viceroy of Sicily,1409–1416, Peter, infans of Aragón

Peter, infans of Aragón

Peter, infans of Aragón, , Viceroy of Sicily, 1424–1425, Duke of Noto, was the sixth child of King Ferdinand I of Aragón, and Leonor Urraca de Castilla....

, Viceroy of Sicily, 1524–1525, and Infante Henry of Aragon.

He was a close associate of Sicilian military man and diplomate Ruggero Paruta. He was in good terms with famous Italian literary author Antonio Beccadelli

Antonio Beccadelli

Antonio Beccadelli , called Il Panormita , was an Italian poet, canon lawyer, scholar, diplomat, and chronicler. He generally wrote in Latin...

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It is most likely, that both, Speziale and Beccadelli assisted to the wedding, 1420, of Infante John of Aragon to widowed Navarrese Princess Blanche I of Navarre

Blanche I of Navarre

Blanche I was Queen of Navarre from 1425 to 1441. She became queen regnant upon the death of her father King Charles III of Navarre...

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Aragonese power, centered around Sicilian-Spanish families, such as Avalos

Ávalos

Ávalos is a Spanish surname, it could refer to:*Cristiano Ávalos dos Passos , Brazilian footballer*Enrique Tovar Ávalos, Mexican film director*Fernando Horácio Ávalos , Argentine footballer...

 or Davalos, Moncada

Moncada

- Places :* Moncada, Tarlac, a municipality in the Philippines* Moncada, Valencia, a municipality in Spain*Guillermon Moncada, a Cuban general and folkhero** Moncada, a community of Santiago de Cuba...

, or Montcada, Cabrera

Cabrera

Cabrera means goatherd in Spanish and Catalan. It may refer to:Places:* Cabrera, Balearic Islands* Cabrera, a town in the northeast of the Dominican Republic* Cabrera, Cundinamarca, a town in Colombia* Cabrera, Santander, a town in Colombia...

, Cardona

Cardona

Cardona is a town ìn Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardoner, a branch of the Llobregat.Near the town is an extensive deposit of rock salt...

, Chiaramonte

Chiaramonte

The Chiaramonte are a noble family of Sicily, claiming descent from Charlemagne. They became the most powerful and wealthy family in Sicily. In the 13th century the marriage of Manfredi Chiaramonte to Isabella Mosca, united the two Sicilian counties of Modica and Ragusa...

, Folch de Cardona, Aragón

Aragon

Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...

 or Aragona

Aragona

Aragona is a small commune in the province of Agrigento in the Italian island of Sicily. Aragona is known in the Sicilian language as Aragunaor Raona...

, Requesens

Requesens

Requesens may refer to:*Lluís de Requesens *Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens *Juan de Zúñiga y Requesens *Requesens Castle, Alt Empordà, Catalonia...

, Ximenez de Urrea, Luna

Luna

Luna most often refers to:* The Latin name for the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite* Luna, the Roman incarnation of Selene, a goddess and the personified Moon in Greek mythology...

, Centelles

Centelles

Centelles is a municipality in the comarca of Osona inCatalonia, Spain. It is situated in the upper valley of the Congost River in the south of thecomarca. The municipality is served by the C-17 road...

, Moncayo

Moncayo

Moncayo may refer to:*Moncayo, a mountain massif of the Sistema Ibérico*Monkayo, Compostela Valley, a municipality in the Philippines-People:*Oswaldo Moncayo, a painter from Ecuador*José Pablo Moncayo, a Mexican composer*Pedro Moncayo, a canton in Ecuador...

, Pignatelli, Platamone, Caracciolo

Caracciolo

Caracciolo is the surname of a famous noble family of southern Italy.Its members include:*Battistello Caracciolo, Italian painter*Carmine Nicolao Caracciolo, Spanish viceroy of Peru*Francesco Caracciolo, Neapolitan admiral and revolutionist...

, Tagliacozzo

Tagliacozzo

-History:Near the modern city was fought the Battle of Tagliacozzo between Conradin of Hohenstaufen and Charles I of Anjou.-Main sights:*The Palazzo Ducale , built by Roberto Orsini....

, Corella

Corella

Corella may refer to:Ornithology* Corella , a member of a group of cockatoos from the subgenus Licmetis*Corella , the journal of the Australian Bird Study Association, formerly called Australian Bird Bander...

, Paternò

Paternò

Paternò is a town and comune in the Province of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.-History:The site of Paternò was settled before 3500 BCE. Its inhabitants were probably the Sicani, although it was located in mainly Sicel territory; its initial name was Inessa. The modern name derives form the Greek...

, Ventimiglia

Ventimiglia

Ventimiglia is a city and comune in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia. It is located southwest of Genoa by rail, and 7 km from the French-Italian border, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the town into two parts...

....., would spread from Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

 embracing also cities and regions like Puglia, Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

, Tarento

Tarento

is a Japanese rendering of the English word "talent" and is used as a catch-all term for mass media personalities who regularly appear on television. Detractors of the phenomenon have referred to it in an English sense as "famous just for being famous" because many that fall into this career line...

, Pescara

Pescara

Pescara is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. As of January 1, 2007 it was the most populated city within Abruzzo at 123,059 residents, 400,000 with the surrounding metropolitan area...

, Brindisi

Brindisi

Brindisi is a city in the Apulia region of Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea.Historically, the city has played an important role in commerce and culture, due to its position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city...

, Salerno

Salerno

Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....

, Amalfi

Amalfi

Amalfi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, c. 35 km southeast of Naples. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, at the foot of Monte Cerreto , surrounded by dramatic cliffs and coastal scenery...

, Cephalonia....

We know also humanists and Academicians indebted to Niccolo Speziale, such as Iovianus Pontanus and Neapolitan Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of...

, who influenced much the Literary Culture of Spain on early Spanish Renaissance Poetry. Imperial Spain soldiers as Juan Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega was a Spanish soldier and poet. He was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain.-Biography:...

  and Jorge de Montemayor

Jorge de Montemayor

Jorge de Montemayor was a Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish.-Biography:He was born at Montemor-o-Velho , whence he derived his name, the Spanish form of which is Montemayor....

, or Sicily based Gutierre de Cetina

Gutierre de Cetina

Gutierre de Cetina a Spanish poet and soldier, was born at Seville. He was the brother of Beltrán and Gregorio de Cetina, lesser known conquistadors. He served under Charles V in Italy and Germany, but retired from the army in 1545 to settle in Seville...

, (1520- Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, 1557), heavily linked since then to the study of the XVI Century European Culture.

Some references

• Storia cronologica dei vicerè, luogotenenti, e presidenti del regno di Sicilia. Seguita da un'appendice sino al 1842 [by P. Insenga]. by Giovanni Evangelista di Blasi e Gambacorta, Pompeo Insenga, (1842), 876 pages, Palermo, dalle Staperia Oretea. Available at the Monaco Royal Library, but fortunately, made available through Google 12 million books, by now, Program on Uncopyrighted and Old Books: http://books.google.es/books?id=_t4ahpdB9BgC&pg=RA1-PA864

• Compendio dela Storia di Sicilia by Niccolo Maggiore, (1840), bought by Harvard College Library 1912, available through Google Uncopyrighted and Old Books program: http://books.google.es/books?id=I_8KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255