Francesco Maria Santinelli
Francesco Maria Santinelli
Born	(1627-04-20)20 April 1627 Pesaro, Papal States
Died	22 November 1697(1697-11-22) (aged 70) Rome, Papal States
Occupations	Poet Librettist Alchemist
Spouse	Anna Maria Aldobrandini ​ ​ ( m. 1658)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Alessandro Santinelli and Margherita Santinelli (née Santacroce)
Writing career
Pen name	Fra’ Marcantonio Crassellame Chinese
Language	Italian Latin
Literary movement	Baroque Marinism
Notable works	Lux obnubilata suapte natura refulgens

Francesco Maria Santinelli (1627-1697) was an Italian marquis, count, Marinist poet, librettist and alchemist. In Senigallia, Christina, Queen of Sweden was welcomed in verse by the handsome Santinelli and his brother, Ludovico, an acrobat and dancer. ^[1] Both seem to have been accomplished scoundrels. ^[2] A year later Ludovico was witness and participant at the murder of Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi at Fontainebleau. (Francesco Maria was on business in Rome during this infamous event.) After the scandal, she promised Pierre Chanut that Ludivico and his two helpers would have to leave her court. ^[3]

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 Quinto, ovvero Tunesi racquistata, 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 maestà 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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• Canneto, Salvatore (2017). "SANTINELLI, Francesco Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 90: Salvestrini–Saviozzo da Siena (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN  978-8-81200032-6.