# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-archpriest
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:22:49.006Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-archpriest"
name: "Leo Archpriest"
slug: "leo-archpriest"
description: "Leo of Naples, also called Leo the Archpriest, was a diplomat and translator in the service of Dukes John III and Marinus II of Naples. He undertook a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, during the joint reign of Constantine VII and Romanus II between 945 and 959. During his time in the capital, he came across the Alexander Romance, a collection of Greek stories about Alexander the Great, and had a copy made for Theodora, the wife of John III. After Theodora's death, John commissioned Leo to translate the Romance into Latin. The date of Theodora's death is unknown, but she was still living in 951. John died in 968 or 969. All that is known of Leo comes from the prologue he wrote to this translation, in which he calls himself an archipresbyter."
tagline: "Italian literary man and translator of the X century"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "900"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.5
  momentum:             5.833333333333335
  historical:           5.872570666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_de_N%C3%A1poles"
    title: "León de Nápoles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_von_Neapel"
    title: "Leo von Neapel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_of_Naples"
    title: "Leo of Naples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_van_Napels"
    title: "Leo van Napels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_de_Naples"
    title: "Léon de Naples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leone_Arciprete"
    title: "Leone Arciprete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1818805"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump