Ferdinando Cesarini

Ferdinando Cesarini (c. 1606–1646) was an Italian poet and physicist

Ferdinando Cesarini
Born1606 (1606)[1]
Rome, Italy
Died8 March 1646 (1646-03-09) (aged 42)
Rome, Italy
Occupationpoet and physicist

Life

Born in Rome in a noble family. Brother of the better-known Virginio Cesarini (1596–1624) to whom Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) addressed Il Saggiatore [The Assayer] (Rome, 1623) in the form of a letter. Ferdinando Cesarini, as a referendarius utriusque signaturae and patron, corresponded with Benedetto Castelli (1577/8-1643), who described the Galilean thermoscope to him in a letter of September 20, 1638.[2]

Father Castelli also invited him to spread the Discorso sulla calamita [Discourse on the loadstone], also dedicated to Cesarini, within a limited circle of "trust" people.[3] Fundamental was the ascending of Cesarini, who pushed Castelli to turn his thoughts around the most "noble fields of the philosophizing".[4]

Cesarini also had contacts with Giovanni Ciampoli, who presented him in a poem[5] and with whom, in the late nineteenth century, he was counted among the prelates of his era inclined "to promote the progress of science".[6]

As a poet he mostly distinguished himself in the satirical poetry;[7] he was also the author of a Latin oration in memory of St. Aloysius Gonzaga that he declaimed, fifteen, in the presence of several cardinals,[8] and of a Latin poem, recited in Jesuits' Roman College, for the election of the Emperor Ferdinand II.[9][10]

Cesarini died at age forty-two, leaving as his executor and heir Cardinal Federico Sforza.[11]

Works
  • De beato Aloysio Gonzaga oratio Romae habita ab illustriss. Ferdinando Caesarini ducis fratre (1618)
  • Gratulatio Ferdinando Cæsari dicta a Ferdinando Cæsarini Ducis fratre in Collegio Romano Soci. Iesu (1619)

References
  1. Saverio Franchi (1988). Drammaturgia romana: (1701-1750), volume secondo. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. p. 820.
  2. "Museo Galileo".
  3. Benedetto Castelli (1988). Massimo Bucciantini (ed.). Carteggio. Firenze: L. S. Olschki. p. 21. ISBN 9788822236036.
  4. Antonio Favaro (1905). Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo. Firenze: Salimbeni. p. 830.
  5. Giovanni Ciampoli (1666). Rime scelte. Roma: Fabio di Falco. pp. 228–236.
  6. Raffaello Caverni (1892). Storia del metodo sperimentale in Italia: Del metodo sperimentale applicato alle scienze fisiche. Firenze: G. Civelli. p. 349. ferdinando cesarini ciampoli.
  7. Nicola Ratti (1795). "Notizie delle famiglie: Della famiglia Cesarini". Della famiglia Sforza: parte II. Roma: Salomoni. p. 264.
  8. Alessandro Luzio (1927). "I fratelli di San Luigi Gonzaga". La Lettura (12). p. 893.
  9. Baldassarre Boncompagni (1878). "Intorno a due lettere del P. Abate D. Benedetto Castelli Monaco Cassinese a Monsignore D. Ferdinando Cesarini". Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche (11). p. 588.
  10. Ricardo García Villoslada (1954). Storia del Collegio Romano dal suo inizio, 1551, alla soppressione della Compagnia di Gesù, 1773. Roma: Apud Aedes Universitatis Gregorianae. p. 285.
  11. Mario Bevilacqua; Maria Luisa Madonna, eds. (2003). Il sistema delle residenze nobiliari: Stato Pontificio e Granducato di Toscana. Roma: De Luca. p. 147.

Sources
  • Leone Allacci (1633). "Ferdinando Cesarini". Leonis Allatii Apes Vrbanae, siue De viris illustribus, qui ab anno 1630. per totum 1632. Romæ adfuerunt, ac typis aliquid euulgarunt. Roma: excudebat Ludouicus Grignanus. p. 92.


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