{{Short description|Italian poet and physicist}} {{Infobox person | name = Ferdinando Cesarini | image = Arms of the house of Cesarini (3).svg | birth_date = {{birth-date|1606}}<ref>{{cite book|author=Saverio Franchi|title=Drammaturgia romana: (1701-1750), volume secondo|location=Roma|publisher=Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura|year=1988|page=820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4571xWfDXIC&q=ferrante+cesarini+commedia&pg=PA225}}</ref> | birth_place =Rome, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|8 March 1646|||1604||}} | 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://catalogo.museogalileo.it/biografia/FerdinandoCesarini.html|title=Museo Galileo|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Benedetto Castelli|title=Carteggio|editor=Massimo Bucciantini|location=Firenze|publisher=L. S. Olschki|year=1988|page=21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P764AAAAIAAJ&q=Cardinale+Ferdinando+Cesarini|isbn=9788822236036}}</ref> Fundamental was the ascending of Cesarini, who pushed Castelli to turn his thoughts around the most "noble fields of the philosophizing".<ref>{{Cite book|author=Antonio Favaro|title=Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo|location=Firenze|publisher=Salimbeni|year=1905|page=830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXHvAAAAMAAJ&q=%22nobili+campi+del+filosofare%22}}</ref>
Cesarini also had contacts with Giovanni Ciampoli, who presented him in a poem<ref>{{Cite book|author=Giovanni Ciampoli|title=Rime scelte|location=Roma|publisher=Fabio di Falco|year=1666|pages=228–236|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz5eAAAAcAAJ&q=%22ferrante+cesarino%22&pg=PP18}}</ref> and with whom, in the late nineteenth century, he was counted among the prelates of his era inclined "to promote the progress of science".<ref>{{Cite book|author=Raffaello Caverni|title=Storia del metodo sperimentale in Italia: Del metodo sperimentale applicato alle scienze fisiche|location=Firenze|publisher=G. Civelli|year=1892|page=[https://archive.org/details/storiadelmetodo06cavegoog/page/n352 349]|url=https://archive.org/details/storiadelmetodo06cavegoog|quote=ferdinando cesarini ciampoli.}}</ref>
As a poet he mostly distinguished himself in the satirical poetry;<ref>{{Cite book|author=Nicola Ratti|chapter=Notizie delle famiglie: Della famiglia Cesarini|title=Della famiglia Sforza: parte II|location=Roma|publisher=Salomoni|year=1795|page=264|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wKQgzdftPeoC&q=ferdinando%20cesarini%20sforza&pg=PA264}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite news|author=Alessandro Luzio|title=I fratelli di San Luigi Gonzaga|work=La Lettura|number=12|year=1927|page=893|url=http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3Abid.braidense.it%3A7%3AMI0185%3AEVA_134_A237199&mode=all&teca=Braidense}}</ref> and of a Latin poem, recited in Jesuits' Roman College, for the election of the Emperor Ferdinand II.<ref>{{cite news|author=Baldassarre Boncompagni|title=Intorno a due lettere del P. Abate D. Benedetto Castelli Monaco Cassinese a Monsignore D. Ferdinando Cesarini|work=Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche|number=11|year=1878|page=588|url=http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN599471603_0011%7CLOG_0062&physid=PHYS_0633|author-link=Baldassarre Boncompagni}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Storia del Collegio Romano dal suo inizio, 1551, alla soppressione della Compagnia di Gesù, 1773|author=Ricardo García Villoslada|location=Roma|publisher=Apud Aedes Universitatis Gregorianae|year=1954|page=285}}</ref>
Cesarini died at age forty-two, leaving as his executor and heir Cardinal Federico Sforza.<ref>{{Cite book|editor1=Mario Bevilacqua|editor2=Maria Luisa Madonna|title=Il sistema delle residenze nobiliari: Stato Pontificio e Granducato di Toscana|location=Roma|publisher=De Luca|year=2003|page=147}}</ref>
==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)
==References== <references />
== Sources == *{{Cite book|author=Leone Allacci|chapter=Ferdinando Cesarini|title=Leonis Allatii Apes Vrbanae, siue De viris illustribus, qui ab anno 1630. per totum 1632. Romæ adfuerunt, ac typis aliquid euulgarunt|location=Roma|publisher=excudebat Ludouicus Grignanus|year=1633|page=92|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdZlAAAAcAAJ&q=%22theatra%20colis%22&pg=PA92|author-link=Leone Allacci}}
== External links == *{{Cite web|url=http://catalogo.museogalileo.it/biografia/FerdinandoCesarini.html|title=Museo Galileo|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}
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