Fiocchi, Andrea (died 1452)

Italian cleric and humanist author, born in Florence. His career was spent in the papal curia, where he wrote his one work, De Potestatibus Romanorum (c. 1424), a discussion of the religious and secular officials of ancient Rome, which he dedicated to Cardinal Branda Castiglioni. Its antiquarianism antedated that of Fiocchi's colleague Flavio Biondo. His contemporaries liked the work so much they did it the dubious honour of attributing a shortened version of it to the ancient historian Lucius Fenestella.