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

Life

Born in

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in a noble family. Brother of the better-known

Virginio Cesarini Virginio Cesarini (20 October 1595, in Rome – 1 April 1624, in Rome) was an Italian poet and intellectual. Youth and Education The son of Giuliano Cesarini, duke of Civitanova, and his wife Livia Orsini, he was sent together with his brother ...

(1596–1624) to whom

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( , , ) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a poly ...

(1564–1642) addressed ''Il Saggiatore''

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(

, 1623) in the form of a

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. Ferdinando Cesarini, as a '' referendarius utriusque signaturae'' and

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, corresponded with

Benedetto Castelli Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italians, Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595. Life Born in Brescia, Castelli studied at the University of ...

(1577/8-1643), who described the Galilean

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to him in a letter of September 20, 1638. Father

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also invited him to spread the ''Discorso sulla calamita'' iscourse on the loadstone also dedicated to Cesarini, within a limited circle of "trust" people. Fundamental was the ascending of Cesarini, who pushed Castelli to turn his thoughts around the most "noble fields of the philosophizing". Cesarini also had contacts with

Giovanni Ciampoli Giovanni Ciampoli or Giovanni Battista Ciampoli (Florence, 1589 – Iesi, 8 September 1643) was a priest, poet and humanist. He was closely associated with Galileo Galilei and his disputes with the Catholic Church. Education and friendship with ...

, who presented him in a poem and with whom, in the late nineteenth century, he was counted among the prelates of his era inclined "to promote the progress of science". As a poet he mostly distinguished himself in the satirical poetry; he was also the author of a Latin oration in memory of

St. Aloysius Gonzaga Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ (; 9 March 156821 June 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic. He was ...

that he declaimed, fifteen, in the presence of several cardinals, and of a Latin poem, recited in Jesuits'

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, for the election of the Emperor Ferdinand II. Cesarini died at age forty-two, leaving as his executor and heir Cardinal

Federico Sforza Federico Sforza (20 January 1603 – 24 May 1676) was an Italian Catholic cardinal. Biography Sforza was born in 1603, the son of Alessandro Sforza, 7th Count of Santa Fiora, Duke of Segni and Prince of Valmontone - and Eleonora Orsini. I ...

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)

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* Italian nobility Italian poets Scientists from the Papal States 17th-century Italian physicists 1600s births 1646 deaths {{Italy-noble-stub