Camillo Porzio (1526–1580) was an Italian historian.

He belonged to a wealthy andnobleNeapolitan family, and was the son of the philosopherSimone Porzio. He studiedlaw, first atBologna and later atPisa, and after graduatingin utroque jure, practised as a lawyer in Naples.^[1]

His chief literary work isLa Congiura dei baroni, a history of the unsuccessful conspiracy of the Neapolitan barons against KingFerdinand I of Naples in 1485; it is based on the authentic records of the state trials, but is prejudiced in favor of the royal power. It was first published byManutius in Rome in 1565. Of Porzio's other works, theStoria d'Italia (from 1547 to 1552), of which only the first two books have survived, is the most important.^[1]

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Porzio, Camillo".Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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