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".