Antonio Beccadelli

Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471), known as Il Panormita from his native Palermo, was an Italian humanist poet and canon lawyer. He taught eloquence at Pavia and served as court poet to the Visconti duke of Milan. In 1425 he published Hermaphroditus, a Latin collection of erotic epigrams that made his name.

From 1442 he served Alfonso V of Aragon at Naples, and in 1448 founded the humanist academy Porticus Antoniana. He died at Naples in 1471.