dissimulazione onesta (Honest Dissimulation), a short treatise written in 1641 in response to
life at court. Employed as a secretary in Andria, a city ruled by the Carafa family, Accetto also
wrote poems and traveled to Rome and Naples, then under Spanish control. 2 Otherwise
little is known of the man whose obscurity may be in keeping with the voluntary concealment
and the need to hide the bitterness of fortune he prescribes in his tract. 3 Della …