Giuliano Cesarini (1572-1613)

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Giuliano Cesarini, portrait by Ottavio Leoni

Duke Giuliano Cesarini , known as Giuliano II. Cesarini (born September 1572 in Rome ; † January 4, 1613 there ), was an Italian nobleman, first Duke of Civitanova Marche and first Marchese of Civita Lavinia .

biography

Giuliano Cesarini at the age of 14 (painting by Sofonisba Anguissola , 1586)

Giuliano Cesarini was born to Giovan Giorgio Cesarini (1549–1585) and Clelia Farnese, the biological daughter of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese , into a wealthy Roman noble family. His father Giovan Giorgio used the birthright in his favor and recommended his newborn son shortly before his death to Pope Sixtus V. In the same year, shortly after the death of Giovan Giorgio, Sixtus V elevated the fiefdom of Civitanova Marche to a duchy and that Fief from Civita Lavinia to a marchesate.

On November 21, 1589 he married Livia Orsini and had five sons with her, only one of them, Giangiorgio II. Cesarini married and had the last two Cesarini dukes as descendants: Giuliano III. Cesarini (1618–1665) and Filippo Cesarini (..– 1671). The other four children were:

  • Pietro became a Knight of the Order of St. John and took part in the defense of Candia
  • Alessandro (1592–1644) became a cardinal in 1636
  • Ferdinando (1604–1646) he was a poet and was also interested in physics; was in correspondence with Benedetto Castelli
  • Virginio (1595-1624) was a respected poet

Giuliano Cesarini was an eccentric: he was tall, stocky and devoted to jokes and curiosities, so that Pizzirani regarded him as one of the role models of the "Marchese del Grillo" and his brother-in-law Giannantonio Orsini called him "a wise man who wanted to look crazy" . For example, during the Carnival of 1612, he organized a comedy performance in a room of his palace that had the floor propped up. Giuliano wanted to remove the supports when it was full of people "to see some chaos". Fortunately, it was stopped in time by the authorities.

Giuliano began building the Cesarini Palace, the family's summer residence in Genzano , by adding to a small 12th century castle to protect Lake Nemi after buying houses and surrounding land.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contratto Livia E Giuliano Cesarini . Nuovo Rinascimento. December 9, 2009.
  2. ↑ Estratto degli Accadimenti nel Levante, Libro Quarto contenente le cose avvenute fino alla fine dell'anno 1660 ( it )
  3. ↑ Museo virtuale Galileo, Biografia di Ferdinando Cesarini ( it )
  4. ↑ Giggi Pizzirani: Sotto il naso della lupa: leggende, tradizioni, figure e curiosità romane. Un precursore del marchese del Grillo . P. Maglione, Rome 1928.
  5. ↑ a b Quoted in Alberto Galieti, La fine romanzesca op. Cit. P. 6
  6. ^ Nicola Ratti: Storia di Genzano, con note e documenti . Stamperia Salomoni, Rome 1797, VI, p. 45-46 ( google.it ).

literature

  • Nicola Ratti: Della Famiglia Sforza . tape 1 . Stamperia Salomoni, Rome 1787, p. 259 ff . ( google.it ).
  • Alberto Galieti: La fine romanzesca della nobile famiglia Cesarini . La Rassegna nazionale, October 1030, p. 3-14 .
personal data
SURNAME Cesarini, Giuliano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian nobleman, first Duke of Civitanova Marche
DATE OF BIRTH September 1572
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1613
Place of death Rome