Ludovico Zuccolo

Ludovico Zuccolo (18 September 15681630) was an Italian writer and political theorist.

Life Ludovico Zuccolo was born into a noble family in Faenza. He was educated at Bologna University, where he studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts. He was briefly a lawyer and philosophy professor at Bologna University. From 1608 to 1617 he served as a courtier in Urbino. From 1617 to 1623 he taught philosophy at Bologna and Padua University. In 1623 he accompanied the apostolic nuncio Innocenzo Massimo on a diplomatic mission to Spain. He returned to Italy in 1625, dying in Bologna in 1630. He is also remembered for the attention he gave to utopia in three pieces of writing included in his 1625 Dialogues: 'Aromatario, or the Republic of Utopia'; 'Porto, or the Republic of Evandria'; and 'Belluzzi, or the Happy City'.

Works Della ragion di stato, 1621. Republished in Benedetto Croce & Santino Caramella, eds., Politici e moralisti del Seicento, Bari, 1930. Discorso delle ragioni del numero del verso italiano. Venice, 1623. Discorsi dell'honore, della gloria, della riputatione, del buon concetto. Venice: Presso Marco Ginami, 1623. Nobiltà commune et heroica. Venice, 1625. Dialoghi di Lodovico Zvccolo ... Ne' qvali con varietà di ervditione si scoprono nuoui, e vaghi pensieri filosofici, morali, e politici.... Venice: Appresso M. Ginammi, 1625. Il secolo dell'oro rinascente nella amicizia tra Nicolò Barbarigo e Marco Trevisano. Venice, 1629 Discorso dello amore verso la patria. Venice, 1631.