Bernardo Davanzati

Bernardo Davanzati (1529 – 1606) was an Italian agronomist, economist and translator.

Davanzati was major translator of Tacitus. He also attempted the concision of Tacitus in his own Italian prose, taking a motto Strictius Arctius reflecting his ambition.

He wrote on economics as a metallist. His works included Notizie dei cambi (1582) and Lezione delle monete (1588).

His Scisma d'Inghilterra was first published in 1602 in Rome. It was a concise version of a work of Girolamo Pollini, on the English Reformation, which itself was dependent on a Latin work of 1585 written by Nicholas Sander and Edward Rishton. John Milton used its imprimaturs (from the 1638 edition) as an illustration on his Areopagitica.