Bernardino Scardeone

Bernardino Scardeone (Padua, 1478 or 1482 was an Italian historian, writer, and cleric, known for his scholarly works on the history of Padua.

Life Scardeone was born in Padua in 1482 to the artisan Angelo Scardeone and his wife Giacoma (born Nardini). (The descent that he later claimed from the noble da Carturo family was his own invention). He was the second child in a family of seven, of whom one brother became an Olivetan monk and two others became a doctor and a surgeon. Nave evangelica esposizione per la religione, 1551.