Ferdinando Cesarini Explained

Ferdinando Cesarini
Birth Date:[1]
Birth Place:Rome, Italy
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Occupation:poet and physicist

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

References

  1. Book: Saverio Franchi. Drammaturgia romana: (1701-1750), volume secondo. Roma. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. 1988. 820.
  2. Web site: Museo Galileo.
  3. Book: Benedetto Castelli. Carteggio. Massimo Bucciantini. Firenze. L. S. Olschki. 1988. 21. 9788822236036.
  4. Book: Antonio Favaro. Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo. Firenze. Salimbeni. 1905. 830.
  5. Book: Giovanni Ciampoli. Rime scelte. Roma. Fabio di Falco. 1666. 228–236.
  6. Book: Raffaello Caverni. Storia del metodo sperimentale in Italia: Del metodo sperimentale applicato alle scienze fisiche. Firenze. G. Civelli. 1892. 349. ferdinando cesarini ciampoli..
  7. Book: Nicola Ratti. Notizie delle famiglie: Della famiglia Cesarini. Della famiglia Sforza: parte II. Roma. Salomoni. 1795. 264. https://books.google.com/books?id=wKQgzdftPeoC&q=ferdinando%20cesarini%20sforza&pg=PA264.
  8. News: Alessandro Luzio. I fratelli di San Luigi Gonzaga. La Lettura. 12. 1927. 893.
  9. News: Baldassarre Boncompagni. 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. 1878. 588. Baldassarre Boncompagni.
  10. Book: Storia del Collegio Romano dal suo inizio, 1551, alla soppressione della Compagnia di Gesù, 1773. Ricardo García Villoslada. Roma. Apud Aedes Universitatis Gregorianae. 1954. 285.
  11. Book: Mario Bevilacqua. Maria Luisa Madonna. Il sistema delle residenze nobiliari: Stato Pontificio e Granducato di Toscana. Roma. De Luca. 2003. 147.

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