The Accademia degli Incogniti, also called the Loredanian Academy, was a learned society of freethinking intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural and political life o
Coat of arms of the Accademia, featuring the crest of the Loredan family.
Giovanni Francesco Loredan, Venetian senator and writer, and founder of the Accademia.
Cesare Cremonini, whose teachings inspired the Accademia degli Incogniti.
Francesco Pona was an Italian medical doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer from Verona, whose works ranged from scientific treatises and history to poetry and plays.
Francesco Pona. Line engraving by H. David
Cardiomorphoseos sive ex corde desumpta emblemata sacra, Verona, 1645