Francesco Maria Santinelli (1627-1697) was an Italian marquis, count,

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poet, librettist,

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and

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. In Senigallia, Christina, Queen of Sweden was welcomed in verse by the handsome Santinelli and his brother, Ludovico, an acrobat and dancer. Both seem to have been accomplished scoundrels. A year later Ludovico was witness and participant at the murder of Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi at

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. (Francesco Maria was on business in Rome during this infamous event.) After the scandal, she promised

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that Ludivico and his two helpers would have to leave her court.

Works

* Le Donne Gverriere Del Signore Conte Francesco Maria Santinelli. Dedicate All' Eminentissimo Principe Il Signore Cardinale. Rocci, 1647 * Canzoni del conte Francesco Maria Santinelli: Dedicate alla sacra real maestà di Cristina regina gloriosissima di Svetia, 1655 * Prose 1659 * In 1659, Santinelli wrote a poem, Carlo V, dedicated to emperor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire in Vienna. * In 1666, Santinelli wrote an alchemical poem with commentary, ''Lux obnubilata suapte natura refulgens'', (Light shining forth by its own nature out of darkness) while using the pseudonym Fra Marc’Antonio Crasselame Chinese. * L'Armida, nemica, amante, e sposa: Dramma musicale (1669) * Delle poesie del marchese Francesco Maria Santinelli ...: Prima parte. Consacrata alla sacra cesarea maesta' della imperatrice Leonora (1669) * Delle ode del marchese Santinelli conte della Metola, e marchese di San Sebastiano, &c. cameriero delle chiaue d'oro di sua maestà cesarea: prima parte (1671) * L'Alessandro overo il trionfo di se stesso: Opera regia (1673) * Alchimista della Massa Trabaria * Il catechismo ermetico-massonico della “Stella fiammeggiante” * Poesie 1680 * Ode 1680

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Santinelli, Francesco Maria 1627 births 1697 deaths Counts of Italy Italian poets Italian male poets Italian librettists Baroque writers