Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato

Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato at the age of 33

Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Il guerriero prudente , Venezia 1640

Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato (born July 23, 1606 in Vicenza ; † 1678 ibid; actually Galeazzo Conte Gualdo Priorato ) was an Italian mercenary , historian , geographer and diplomat . He came from an old family of Italian counts . After a long military career, he wrote numerous historical works on European rulers and cities. Among other things, he wrote the story of Emperor Ferdinand III. and Leopold I. as well as the first biography of Wallenstein .

Life

mercenary

Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato initially embarked on a military career. At the age of 15 he entered the service of Friedrich Heinrich von Orange and changed his employer several times during the Eighty and Thirty Years' War . He fought on both the Protestant and the Catholic side. In 1625 he traveled to England in the service of Count Peter Ernst II von Mansfeld to recruit new troops . After the crushing defeat of Mansfeld on April 25, 1626 in Dessau by the army of Wallenstein, Galeazzo returned to the Netherlands . On the way he narrowly escaped death in a shipwreck. Back in Dutch service, he took part in the siege of La Rochelle between 1627 and 1628 . In 1637 he accompanied an expedition sent by Prince Moritz von Nassau to conquer Portuguese trading posts along the African coast. After that he stayed with his father in Italy for a while, until this time he entered the service of Wallenstein. In 1643 he led a cuirassier regiment of the Venetian troops as a colonel . At the beginning of the peace negotiations in June 1645, which finally led to the Peace of Westphalia , Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato entered the service of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria . But on August 3, 1645 his troops were defeated in the battle of Alerheim . Galeazzo then returned to Italy and ended his military career.

Historian and diplomat

Subsequently, Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato shifted his activity to historical studies and diplomacy. In 1652 he was called to Vincennes in France to write a history about Cardinal Jules Mazarin . During his stay in Vincennes he was awarded the dignity of knight by the Order of Michael . In 1656 he stayed again in Rome, where he was awarded the title of Nobilis romanus . During this time he entered the service of Queen Christine of Sweden as chamberlain in Rome . In this capacity he made another trip to France in 1659 and to Regensburg in 1664 . In the same year he became imperial counselor and historiographer in the service of Emperor Leopold I. He returned to his native Vicenza, where he stayed until his death. There he wrote his history about Leopold I. Finally, in 1676, the Republic of Venice awarded him the dignity of Knight of San Marco .

Works (selection)

• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Continuatione dell'historia di Leopoldo Cesare, Nella quale si descriva la ribellione d'Ungheria, E quanto è sucesso dal principio della Congiura sino all'Anno 1676 . Thurnmeyer, Vienna, 1676.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia della vita d'Alberto Valstein duca di Fridlanda . Lyon 1643.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia delle guerre di Ferdinando Secondo e Ferdinando Terzo Imperatori, e del Rè Filippo Quarto di Spagna. Contro Gostavo Adolfo Rè di Suetia, e Luigi XIII. Rè di Francia 4 vols., Bertani, Venice 1640-1651.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia del ministerio del cardinale Giulio Mazarino, primo ministro della corona di Francia: nella quale si raccontano i successi principali occorsi dal principio della sua direzzione sino alla sua morte . Cologne 1669.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia di Ferdinando terzo Imperatore . Cosmeruvius, Vienna 1672.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia di Leopoldo Cesare, Continente le cose piu memorabili successe in Europa dal 1656 fino al 1670 . 3 vol., Hacque, Vienna 1670-1674. [1]
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia pacis inter Ludovicum XIV. E Philippum IV. Anno Christi M.DC.LIX . Sumptibus Johannes Grossius, Leipzig 1667.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Maneggio della Cavalleria . Venice 1650.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Relatione del governo, e Stato delle citta imperiali di Norimberg, Augusta, Ulm, e Francfort . Cologne 1668.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Relatione delle città imperiali & ansiatiche di Colonia, Lubecca, Bremen & Hamburg . Leyden 1668.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Relatione delle città di Bologna, Fiorenza, Genova, e Lucca, con notitia di tutte le cose piu degne, e curiose delle medesime . Monti, Bologna, 1675.
• Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Teatro del Belgio ò sia descrittione delle diecisette provincie del medesimo; Con le Piante delle Cittá, e Fortezze Principali, da chi al presente posesse, come, in qual modo, e in qual tempo acquistate . Thurnmayer, Vienna, 1673.

Some of his works were translated into French and Latin while Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato was still alive.

literature

• Giuseppe Gullino:  Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 60:  Grosso – Guglielmo da Forlì. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2003.
• Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker : Count Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato's description of Hamburg in 1663 . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Vol. 3, 1851, pp. 140–156.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Ed.): Scholars-Lexicon in it the scholars of all classes from the beginning of the world to the present time. According to their birth, life, writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order , Vol. 2. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1750, pp. 156–158.
• Johann Martin Lappenberg : L. Aubery du Maurier and Count Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Vol. 3, 1851, pp. 260–271.
• Klaus-Peter Müller (arrangement): Relatione De gli Stati, e Corte di sua Ecca Il Sig. Antonio Gunthero, Conte di Oldenbourg . In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch , 94, 1994, pp. 145-174.
• Georg Wilhelm Schrader: Biographical-literary lexicon of the veterinarians of all times and countries as well as the naturalists, doctors, farmers, stable masters, etc., who have made an outstanding contribution to veterinary medicine . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart, 1863, p. 189.
• Karl Willoh: Count Anton Günther and the historian Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato . In: Oldenburg Jahrbuch , Vol. 9, 1900, p. 74.

Web links

• Works by and about Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato in the Opac des Servizio biblotecario nazionale