Francesco Maria Santinelli (1627-1697) was an Italian marquis, count,

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was welcomed in verse by the handsome Santinelli and his brother, Ludovico, an acrobat and dancer. Both seem to have been accomplished scoundrels. A year later Ludovico was witness and participant at the murder of

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. (Francesco Maria was on business in Rome during this infamous event.) After the scandal, she promised

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that Ludivico and his two helpers would have to leave her court. Santinelli was an ardent Hermetic poet, and, as Anna Maria Partini has shown, he is also one of the first known Italian poets to allude to the

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in poetic verse.See "Carlo V" canto V:89, "De la mia Rosea Croce aurea fortuna" in

Works

* Le Donne Gverriere Del Signore Conte Francesco Maria Santinelli. Dedicate All'Eminentissimo Principe Il Signore Cardinale. Rocci, 1647 * Canzoni del conte Francesco Maria Santinelli: Dedicate alla sacra real maestà di Cristina regina gloriosissima di Svetia, 1655 * Prose 1659 * In 1659, Santinelli wrote a poem, ''Carlo Quinto, ovvero Tunesi racquistata'', dedicated to emperor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire in Vienna. * In 1666, Santinelli wrote an alchemical poem with commentary, ''Lux obnubilata suapte natura refulgens'', (Light shining forth by its own nature out of darkness) while using the pseudonym Fra Marc’Antonio Crasselame Chinese. * L'Armida, nemica, amante, e sposa: Dramma musicale (1669) * Delle poesie del marchese Francesco Maria Santinelli ...: Prima parte. Consacrata alla sacra cesarea maestà della imperatrice Leonora (1669) * Delle ode del marchese Santinelli conte della Metola, e marchese di San Sebastiano, &c. cameriero delle chiaue d'oro di sua maestà cesarea: prima parte (1671) * L'Alessandro overo il trionfo di se stesso: Opera regia (1673) * Alchimista della Massa Trabaria * Il catechismo ermetico-massonico della “Stella fiammeggiante” * Poesie 1680 * Ode 1680

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Santinelli, Francesco Maria 1627 births 1697 deaths Counts in Italy Italian poets Italian male poets Italian librettists Italian Baroque writers