| Honorific Prefix: | Reverend |
| Camillo Tutini | |
| Birth Date: | 1594 |
| Birth Place: | Naples, Kingdom of Naples |
| Death Place: | Rome, Papal States |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Mother: | Angela Salerno |
| Discipline: | History |
| Sub Discipline: | History of Italy |
| Notable Works: | Dell’origine, e fundation de’ seggi |
Camillo Tutini (15948 August 1666) was an Italian historian, mainly of the Neapolitan region.
Camillo Tutini was born in Naples probably in 1594. His family originated from Sant'Angelo a Fasanella, in the province of Salerno. Tutini often mentioned that one of his ancestors, Landolfo Tutini, received land in Fasanella in 1246 from the Emperor Frederick II. However, by the time of Camillo Tutini's birth his family was impoverished. Camillo had four sisters – Laudomia, Ippolita, Lella, Livia and one brother – Metello.[1]
Having reached the proper age, he entered the famous Certosa di San Martino in Naples, where some of his relatives had lived as monks in earlier centuries. Later at the age of about twenty-five, he left the charterhouse to continue studying and to be ordained a priest. Between 1628 and 1630 he lived in Naples with his mother and two of his sisters. At that time, Tutini started his correspondence with Ferdinando Ughelli, a librarian at the Vatican and the famous editor of Italia Sacra, and Bartolomeo Chioccarello, with whom he closely cooperated.[1] Thanks to his involvement he won recognition for his writing and became part of the city's scholarly and literary circles.
In 1647, he was linked to Matteo Cristiano, a leader during the Neapolitan Republic as well as to the party favoring French intervention under Henry II, Duke of Guise. These links, and his praise of republicanism, putatively led to the threat of arrest in Naples, and he fled to Rome under the protection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio.[2] In Rome, he entered the service on Cardinal Francesco Barberini, having obtained several modest donations. He also worked in Viterbo organizing the library of Cardinal Azzolino. Tutini always struggled with poverty until he died in Rome in 1666 in the Ospedale di Santo Spirito. Several of his manuscript works are preserved today in the Brancacciana collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples.[3]
Tutini befriended and collaborated with many of the most prominent scholars of his age, including Antonio Amico, Agostino Inveges, Lucas Holstenius and Leo Allatius.