Vicino Orsini

Pier Francesco Orsini , also known as Vicino Orsini (* July 4, 1523 , † January 28, 1585 ), was an Italian nobleman from the Orsini family .

Life

Orsini was initially an officer and politician in the environment of Pope Paul III. In 1542 Orsini took over the county of Bomarzo , which his father had previously held. In 1544 he married Giulia Farnese († 1564), a relative of the Pope, not to be confused with his grandmother (maternal) Giulia Farnese .

In 1557, Orsini witnessed a battle between the Pope and the city of Montefortino , which ended in a massacre of civilians, whereupon Orsini ended his military and political career.

As a result, Orsini worked as a philosopher and, with his wife, as a patron . So he had the Parco dei Mostri built in Bomarzo .

Adaptations

• Manuel Mujica Láinez : Bomarzo. A renaissance novel . Blanvalet Verlag, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-7645-3981-X (the novel is set at the time of the Italian Renaissance and deals with the life of Vicino Orsini).
• Alberto Ginastera : Bomarzo . Opera in two acts (15 pictures). Boosey & Hawkes, Bonn 1970 (based on the novel of the same name by Manuel Mujica Láinez and also thematizes Vicino Orsini).

literature

• Horst Bredekamp , Wolfram Janzer (photos): Vicino Orsini and the Sacred Forest of Bomarzo. A prince as artist and anarchist (= Green Series. 7). Werner Verlag, Worms.
  • 1st edition: 1985:
    • Part 1: ISBN 3-88462-015-5 .
    • Part 2: ISBN 3-88462-026-6 .
  • 2nd, revised edition. 1991, ISBN 3-88462-061-4 .
• Gunda Hinrichs: The sacred forest of Bomarzo. An enigmatic Italian Renaissance garden and Freud's dream interpretation as a method of its interpretation . With photographs by Werner Holtmann. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1283-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adele Cambria: "Be Saved dall'oblio i mostri di Bomarzo" (Italian)
2. ↑ On the history of the park (Italian)
3. ↑ Roles of the Opera