Bartolomeo Facio

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Bartolomeo Facio (c. 1400 – 1457) was an Italian historian, writer and humanist.

Facio was born into a wealthy family of La Spezia, Liguria. He studied in Verona, Florence and Genoa and was a notary in Lucca and Genoa. In 1445 he moved to Naples at the service of King Alfonso V of Aragon as secretary and official historian.

His works include De rebus gestis ab Alphonso I Neapolitanorum rege libri X (1448-1445), De bello veneto clodiano (published in 1568) and the moral treatises De humanae vitae felicitate and De excellentia ac praestantia hominis.

He died at Naples in 1457.