Pietro Massimo

Pietro Massimo was an Italian merchant and banker from Roma.

Pietro was born as the eldest son of a wealthy merchant and apothecary Massimo Lello Cecco and Francesca Mancino de Lutiis. He started his career working in his father's pharmacy in Piazza della Rotonda, and after his father's death he proved to be a successful manager of the family’s numerous real estates, and commercial and financial activities. The most profitable of these enterprises was, however, bank in Campo de ‘Fiori that he managed with his brother Francesco.

As the supporters of the written word, the brothers between 1467 and 1475 hosted at their house, placed along the Mercantilus, the typography of Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz, as can be seen from the colophon in Latin "Romae juxta Campum Dome Flore in Petri et de Francisci Maximis' ("Rome at Campo d 'Flowers in the home of Peter and Francis de Maximis"). Probably the same house in the next century hosted workshops of Eucario Silber and Antonio Blado as well.

Like his father, Pietro Massimo was interested in public life and held some office being Custodian of the Studium Urbis in 1471, and a member of a diplomatic mission to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1482.

After his death the family business was succeeded by his son Domenico.