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 41)
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)
gollark: Apparently Intel somehow even managed to muck up security of their iGPUs. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-gen7-hit&num=1
gollark: I'm going to make sure to, er, pay attention to handling uploads then. It's somewhat annoying from an ease of use perspective that it stores to files by default, but it does make sense for performance.
gollark: I can't see any obvious ones. The session is presumably encrypted, this will be running over HTTPS, maybe I could swap out SHA256 for an actual password hashing function though.
gollark: But with minor tweaks, like a persistent session store, an actual config file, a templating engine, sort of thing.
gollark: I kind of want to steal your node file host thingy now.

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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