Claudio Achillini

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Claudio Achillini

Claudio Achillini (* 1574 in Bologna ; † 1640 ) was the grandson of Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and the great-nephew of Alessandro Achillini and an Italian philosopher , theologian , lawyer , mathematician , poet and librettist .

In addition to general science and medicine, he mainly studied law . He taught in Bologna as well as in Ferrara and Parma as a professor and went to Pope Gregory XV. , King Ludwig XIII. and Cardinal Richelieu in closer relationship. The latter is said to have offered him a gold chain worth 1,000 kroner for a canzone , which was addressed to Louis XII on the occasion of the heir to the throne's birth.

He died on his estate in 1640. As a poet ( Rime e prose , Venice 1673) he followed Marinism .

literature

  • Angelo Colombo: Riposi di Pindo , studi su Claudio Achillini. Florence, 1988, ISBN 88-222-3604-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rose, Hugh James (1857) A New General Biographical Dictionary , London: B. Fellowes et al.