Ciro Spontoni

Ciro Spontoni
Born	1550s  Bologna, Papal States
Died	1612  Bologna, Papal States
Occupation	Politician, writer

Ciro Spontoni (1552-1610) was an Italian advisor to rulers, diplomat, and historian.

Biography

He was born in Bologna, he was employed as a secretary for many leaders in Northern Italy, including the archbishop of Ravenna; the bishop of Policastro; the Duke of Nemours, Giacomo di Savoia (Jacques, Duke of Nemours); Rodolfo Gonzaga, marchese di Castiglione, and the Duke of Mantua. He traveled with the latter to Hungary and Transylvania. He also served as secretary to the Bolognese Senate. He also published a book on Metoposcopia (Metoposcopy), a mixture of astrology and phrenologic interpretation of forehead wrinkles.

Among his works are:

• Dodici libri del governo di stato
• Ragguaglio del fatto d'arme seguito nell'Africa tra Don Sebastiano, re di Portogallo (King Sebastian of Portugal) e Matei Auda Mlucco (Muley-Abdel Melck or Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi) (1601, Bologna)
• Azioni dei re dell'Ungheria (1602, Bologna)
• Avvertimenti della storia di Gucciardini (1608, Bergamo)
• Storia della Transilvania (1638, Venice) (see History of Transylvania)
• La metoposcopia overo Commensuratione delle linee della fronte...nuova fisonomia, un tratatto dei nei, & un altro dell'indole della persona, con molte curiosità. (1672, Andrea Rossi, Verona)

External links

• Gurreri, Clizia (2019). "SPONTONE, Ciro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 93: Sisto V–Stammati (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.