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Giovanni ciampoli e la storia dell’istoria di pollonia
Abstract
Giovanni Ciampoli, intellectual and poet, Secretary of Secret Briefs at the
Roman Curia, considered a “friend of New Philosophy” — i.e. a supporter of
Galileo — was removed from his post in 1632 by Pope Urban VIII. Banned
from Rome to the Marches, a remote area of the papal States, humiliated and nearly forgotten, he received the partronage of Wladyslaw IV, King of Poland. In return, he offered to write a history of his protector’s military feats, based on documents to be shipped to him from Poland. This essay draws on Ciampoli’s correspondence to explore the long and complicated process of
gestation of that history, against the background of seventeenth-century
Italian and Polish culture and society.
Roman Curia, considered a “friend of New Philosophy” — i.e. a supporter of
Galileo — was removed from his post in 1632 by Pope Urban VIII. Banned
from Rome to the Marches, a remote area of the papal States, humiliated and nearly forgotten, he received the partronage of Wladyslaw IV, King of Poland. In return, he offered to write a history of his protector’s military feats, based on documents to be shipped to him from Poland. This essay draws on Ciampoli’s correspondence to explore the long and complicated process of
gestation of that history, against the background of seventeenth-century
Italian and Polish culture and society.
