Nicola Orsini, Count of Nola

Nicola Orsini (1331–1399), count of Nola, inherited the Neapolitan counties of Nola and Soleto. A Guelph leader aligned with the Angevin crown, he was senator of Rome in 1356 and viceroy of the Abruzzo in 1359–1361, defeating Konrad von Landau's invading Great Company there in 1359.

He became Gonfalonier of the Church in 1365 and later rector of the Patrimony of Saint Peter. A friend of Boccaccio and Salutati, he rebuilt the cathedral of Nola in the Gothic style, a work that ran from 1370 to 1395.