Most Reverend Pietro Ranzano | |
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Bishop of Lucera | |
![]() Italian humanist, Pietro Ranzano before King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Queen Beatrice (Epitome rerum Hungarorum, 1490) | |
Church | Catholic Church |
In office | 1476–1492 |
Predecessor | Ladislao Dentice |
Successor | Giambattista Contestabili |
Pietro Ranzano (Palermo, 1428–Lucera, 1492) was an Italian Dominican friar, bishop, historian, humanist and scholar who is best known for his work, De primordiis et progressu felicis Urbis Panormi, a history of the city of Palermo from its beginnings up until the contemporary period in which Ranzano was writing.[1] The composition is influenced to some extent by humanistic conceptions of historical research, offers glimpses into the world view of a Sicilian intellectual of the Renaissance period on Jews and Jewish culture, as well as Sicily’s past.