Celso Benedetto from Sarzana, was Governor of Corsica for the Republic and Apostolic Commissar by the Popes and Governor of Narni and, finally, Podestà of Lucca. He wrote some juridical treatises (XV-XVI c.).

He was one of the revisers of the Statutes of Sarzana, in which it is written “emended by the Magnificent Lord Benedetto de’Conti de’Celsi, Dottore e Cavagliero dello Speron d’oro”.

He is mentioned in the relation about the Apostolic visit made by Monsignor Angelo Peruzzi from the Convent of St. Domenico for having given an altar of five jugers arable land. His sarcophagus is walled in the hall of the municipial palace after that the Convent of St. Domenico was destroyed and where his body was buried.

From “Appunti per una storia di Sarzana” Ennio Callegari.