Antonio Neri (alchemist)

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Antonio Ludovic Neri (born February 26, 1576 in Florence ; † 1614 there or Pisa ) was an Italian priest , alchemist and glassmaker .

Live and act

Copper plate from L'arte vetraria (1612)
Title page of an edition from 1662 L 'arte vetraria

He was the son of the doctor Jacopo Neri. Antonio Neri was ordained priest in Florence in 1601 . There he lived in Alamanno Bartolini's household. He also devoted himself to the study of alchemy and chemistry. His travels took him through Italy, including Murano, and to Holland and Belgium, so he lived in Antwerp from about 1604 to 1611 . He stayed there in the house of the Portuguese banker and merchant Emmanuel Ximenes (1564–1632), that Emmanuel Ximenes, who had lived a few years earlier in Florence with his sister Beatrice, who later became the wife of Alamanno Bartolini and that Ximenes himself made a name as an art and rarity collector. During his travels he gained a great deal of information about the manufacture of glass and its processing. It was his knowledge in the manufacture of different types of glass and the addition of metal oxides to the glass melt to form colored glasses that made him stand out. He laid down this knowledge in the work L 'arte vetraria distineta in libri sette ( 1612 ), which for a long time formed the basis for most other works on this subject. In 1662 it was translated by Christopher Merret and provided with his own comments. It was translated into German by Johannes Kunckel , who in 1679 published a commentary in his Ars Vitraria Neris and other works on the art of glassmaking.

Works (selection)

  • Antonio Neri: L 'Arte vetraria distinta in libri sette del rp Antonio Neri fiorentino: ne quali si scoprono, effetti marauigliosi, & insegnano segreti bellissimi, del vetro nel fuoco & altre cose curiose. nella Stamperia de'Giunti (1612)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Antonio Neri”. Catholic Encyclopedia, online ( July 6, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Encyclopedia.com. Biography in English by WV Farrar .
  3. ^ Lance Day, Ian McNeil: Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. Routledge, London (2003) ISBN 0-415-06042-7 pp. 896-897.
  4. ↑ Albrecht Schneider: Glass so beautiful and graceful that it surpasses the oriental agate. On the history of agate glasses. Kultur & Technik 4 (1993) p. 54, online (PDF; 10.4 MB).
  5. ^ Maria Grazia Grazzini: Documenta inedita Discorso sopra la Chimica: The Paracelsian Philosophy of Antonio Neri. Nuncius 27 (2012) p. 411, footnote 9 .
personal data
SURNAME Neri, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nerus, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian priest and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH 1614
Place of death Florence or Pisa