Alfonso Ceccarelli (1532-1583) was an Italian physician and genealogist. He authored many false genealogical studies. He was sued, arrested, tortured and beheaded for forging wills and other legal documents.
Alfonso Ceccarelli | |
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| Born | 1532 |
| Died | July 9, 1583 Rome, Italy |
| Cause of death | execution by decapitation |
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| Relatives | Odoardo Ceccarelli (grandson) |
Early life
editAlfonso Ceccarelli was born in 1532 in Città di Castello, Italy.[1] His father was a notary.[1]
Career
editCeccarelli was a physician and genealogist.[1] He started practising medicine in 1569.[1] Meanwhile, he specialized in writing local histories, highlighting the prominence of whichever family hired him to do so.[1] For example, when he was hired by the Podiani family, he wrote a study about prominent members of this family in the town of Rieti.[1]
Ceccarelli authored a false version of Chronicae Gualdenses, a lost medieval text about Umbria, and used it as a source for his own studies.[1]
Ceccarelli was the author of De familiis illustribus Italiæ ac de earum origine under the pseudonym of Fanusio Campano.[2] The genealogical study suggested the House of Grimaldi descended from Normandy, which was false.[2]
Ceccarelli forged wills and other legal documents.[1] He was sued, arrested and tortured.[1]
Death and legacy
editCeccarelli was beheaded for his crimes on July 9, 1583, in Rome, Italy.[1]
In the seventeenth century, Ceccarelli's research was used as a source by Charles de Venasque-Ferriol, a Monegasque courtier who authored Genealogica et Historica Grimaldœ Gentis arbor in 1647 with the aim of linking the House of Grimaldi to the French royal family.[2]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bohler, Danièle; Magnien-Simonin, Catherine (2005). Ecritures de l'histoire (XIVe - XVIe siècle): actes du colloque du Centre Montaigne, Bordeaux, 19-21 septembre 2002. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz. pp. 219–222. ISBN 9782600010115. Retrieved December 22, 2015.219-222&rft.pub=Librairie Droz&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=9782600010115&rft.aulast=Bohler&rft.aufirst=Danièle&rft.au=Magnien-Simonin, Catherine&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KaWbRrHUcwC&q=%22Alfonso+Ceccarelli%22&pg=PA219&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Alfonso Ceccarelli" class="Z3988">
- ^ a b c Fouilleron, Thomas (2013). "Français par le livre. Les princes de Monaco et l'incroyable longévité d'une généalogie fabuleuse (XVIIe-XIXe siècle)". Revue historique. 3 (667): 601–636. doi:10.3917/rhis.133.0601. Retrieved December 22, 2015 – via Cairn.info.601-636&rft.date=2013&rft_id=info:doi/10.3917/rhis.133.0601&rft.aulast=Fouilleron&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft_id=http://www.cairn.info/revue-historique-2013-3-page-601.htm.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Alfonso Ceccarelli" class="Z3988">
External links
edit- Petrucci, Armando (1979). "CECCARELLI, Alfonso". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 23: Cavallucci–Cerretesi (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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