Accademia degli Incogniti

Accademia degli Incogniti

Coat of arms of the Accademia, featuring the crest of the Loredan family.
Nickname	Loredanian Academy
Named after	House of Loredan
Formation	1630
Founder	Giovanni Francesco Loredan Guido Casoni
Founded at	Venice,  Republic of Venice
Dissolved	1661
Headquarters	Palazzo Priuli Ruzzini Loredan

The Accademia degli Incogniti (Academy of the Unknowns), also called the Loredanian Academy, was a learned society of freethinking intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural and political life of mid-17th century Venice. The society was founded in 1630 by Giovanni Francesco Loredan and Guido Casoni, and derived its basic Aristotelian philosophy from Cesare Cremonini, a Peripatetic who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Padua.^[1] The society included historians, poets, and librettists.