Niccolò Speciale

Niccolò Speziale di Noto, Viceroy of Sicily 1423 - 1424, and 1425–1432, was a personal Sicilian vassal of Aragonese Infante John of Aragon, Viceroy of Sicily,1409–1416, Peter, infans of Aragón, Viceroy of Sicily, 1524–1525, and Infante Henry of Aragon.

He was a close associate of Sicilian military man and diplomate Ruggero Paruta.^{[citation needed]} He was in good terms with famous Italian literary author Antonio Beccadelli.^{[citation needed]}

It is most likely, that both, Speziale and Beccadelli assisted to the wedding, 1420, of Infante John of Aragon to widowed Navarrese Princess Blanche I of Navarre.^{[citation needed]}

Aragonese power, centered around Sicilian-Spanish families, such as Avalos or Davalos, Moncada,^{[disambiguation needed ]} or Montcada, Cabrera,^{[disambiguation needed ]} Cardona, Chiaramonte, Folch de Cardona, Aragón or Aragona, Requesens,^{[disambiguation needed ]} Ximenez de Urrea, Luna,^{[disambiguation needed ]} Centelles, Moncayo,^{[disambiguation needed ]} Pignatelli, Platamone, Caracciolo, Tagliacozzo, Corella,^{[disambiguation needed ]} Paternò, Ventimiglia....., would spread from Sicily embracing also cities and regions like Puglia, Naples, Tarento, Pescara, Brindisi, Salerno, Amalfi, Cephalonia....^[off-topic?]

We know also humanists and Academicians indebted to Niccolo Speziale, such as Iovianus Pontanus and Neapolitan Jacopo Sannazaro, who influenced much the Literary Culture of Spain on early Spanish Renaissance Poetry.^{[citation needed]} Imperial Spain soldiers as Juan Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega and Jorge de Montemayor, or Sicily based Gutierre de Cetina, (1520- Mexico, 1557), heavily linked since then to the study of the XVI Century European Culture.^{[clarification needed]}

Some references

• Storia cronologica dei vicerè, luogotenenti, e presidenti del regno di Sicilia. Seguita da un'appendice sino al 1842 [by P. Insenga]. by Giovanni Evangelista di Blasi e Gambacorta, Pompeo Insenga, (1842), 876 pages, Palermo, dalle Staperia Oretea. Available at the Monaco Royal Library, but fortunately, made available through Google 12 million books, by now, Program on Uncopyrighted and Old Books: http://books.google.es/books?id=_t4ahpdB9BgC&pg=RA1-PA864

• Compendio dela Storia di Sicilia by Niccolo Maggiore, (1840), bought by Harvard College Library 1912, available through Google Uncopyrighted and Old Books program: http://books.google.es/books?id=I_8KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255