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==Life==
==Life==
Tutini initially studied at the [[Certosa di San Martino]] in [[Naples]] and - between 1628 and 1630 - lived in Naples with his mother and two of his sisters. Tutini later became part of the city's scholarly and literary circles. He entered a [[monastery]], but soon left it to continue studying and to be [[ordination|ordained]] a [[priest]].
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Nel 1647, comunque, fu molto vicino a Matteo Cristiano, un capopopolo della rivolta di Masanielloː anzi, Tutini fu probabilmente un uomo del partito francese della rivolta, avendo anche contattato il Enrico II, duca di Guisa. Tutini , già negli anni precedenti la rivolta, non fu estraneo a progetti politici vicini al repubblicanesimo, tanto che la sua opera sui seggi napoletani fu, a posteriori, ritenuta fondamentale per la nascita di un'ideologia repubblicana a Napoli. [2]. Avvertito di un ordine di arresto nei suoi confronti, fuggì a Roma, dove si pose sotto la protezione del cardinale Francesco Maria Brancaccio[3].


Camillo Tutini was born in 1594 in Salerno, at the time the capital of the Principality of Citra, in a large family. He had four sisters named Laudomia, Ippolita, Lella, Livia, and a brother named Metello. He made his first studies in Naples, in the Certosa di San Martino and, between 1628 and 1630, became friends and worked with many scholars and writers in Naples, where his mother and sisters Laudomia and Lella lived with him.
Tutini, che già a Napoli aveva svolto una prolifica attività storiografica, approfittò della Biblioteca Vaticana e dell'Archivio del Campidoglio per perfezionare lo studio storiografico sui documenti vaticani[4]. Inoltre, strinse un solido rapporto con Ferdinando Ughelli, che lo ebbe tra i suoi più validi collaboratori[5].--->


When Camillo entered the monastery, he abandoned it, while continuing to attend for his studies and receiving priestly ordination [1].
Tutini died in poverty in the [[Ospedale di Santo Spirito]] in Rome.

In 1647, however, Camillo was very close to Matteo Cristiano, a head of the revolt of Masaniello. Tutini was probably a man of the French party of the revolt, having also contacted Henry II, Duke of Guisa. Tutini, already in the years preceding the revolt, was no stranger to political projects close to republicanism, so much so that his work on Neapolitan seats was, in retrospect, considered fundamental for the birth of a republican ideology in Naples [2]. Warned of an arrest warrant against him, he fled to Rome, where he placed himself under the protection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio [3].

Tutini, who had already carried out a prolific historiographic activity in Naples, took advantage of the Vatican Library and the Capitol Archive to perfect the historiographic study of Vatican documents [4]. Furthermore, he forged a solid relationship with Ferdinando Ughelli, who had him among his most valuable collaborators [5].

According to sources, Tutini died in poverty in the Hospital of Santo Spirito, in Rome, in 1667 [4].


== Works==
== Works==

Revision as of 23:35, 28 March 2020

Camillo Tutini (1594-1667) was an Italian historian.

Life

Camillo Tutini was born in 1594 in Salerno, at the time the capital of the Principality of Citra, in a large family. He had four sisters named Laudomia, Ippolita, Lella, Livia, and a brother named Metello. He made his first studies in Naples, in the Certosa di San Martino and, between 1628 and 1630, became friends and worked with many scholars and writers in Naples, where his mother and sisters Laudomia and Lella lived with him.

When Camillo entered the monastery, he abandoned it, while continuing to attend for his studies and receiving priestly ordination [1].

In 1647, however, Camillo was very close to Matteo Cristiano, a head of the revolt of Masaniello. Tutini was probably a man of the French party of the revolt, having also contacted Henry II, Duke of Guisa. Tutini, already in the years preceding the revolt, was no stranger to political projects close to republicanism, so much so that his work on Neapolitan seats was, in retrospect, considered fundamental for the birth of a republican ideology in Naples [2]. Warned of an arrest warrant against him, he fled to Rome, where he placed himself under the protection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio [3].

Tutini, who had already carried out a prolific historiographic activity in Naples, took advantage of the Vatican Library and the Capitol Archive to perfect the historiographic study of Vatican documents [4]. Furthermore, he forged a solid relationship with Ferdinando Ughelli, who had him among his most valuable collaborators [5].

According to sources, Tutini died in poverty in the Hospital of Santo Spirito, in Rome, in 1667 [4].

Works

Memorie della vita miracoli e culto di San Gianuario Martire, second edition, 1681
  • Memorie della vita miracoli, e culto di San Gianuario martire vescouo di Beneuento, e principal protettore della città di Napoli. Raccolte da don Camillo Tutini Napoletano, in Napoli, appresso Ottauio Beltrano, 1633
  • Notitie della vita, e miracoli di due santi Gaudiosi, l'vno vescouo di Bittinia, e l'altro di Salerno: e del martirio di S. Fortunata, e fratelli, e del loro culto, e veneratione in Napoli. Raccolte per don Camillo Tutini napoletano et date in luce ad instanza della reuer. archiabbadessa, & monache di San Gaudioso, in Napoli, appresso Ottauio Beltrano, 1634
  • Narratione della vita, e martirio di San Biagio Vescouo di Sebaste. Comprabata col'autorità di grauissimi autori per Don Camillo Tutini napoletano, in Napoli, per Lazaro Scrigno, 1635
  • Historia della famiglia Blanch, in Napoli, nella Stamparia di Ottauio Beltrano, 1641
  • Della varietà della fortuna, discorso di D. Camillo Tutini napoletano, in Napoli, 1643
  • Sopplimento all'Apologia del Terminio, in Napoli, s.n., 1643
  • Dell'origine, e fundation de seggi di Napoli, del tempo in che furono instituiti, e della separation de' nobili dal popolo; Del supplimento al Terminio, oue si aggiungono alcune famiglie tralasciate da esso alla sua apologia, & Della varietà della fortuna confermata con la caduta di molte famiglie del regno, discorsi di don Camillo Tutini napolitano, in Napoli, appresso il Beltrano, 1644
  • Prodigiosi portenti del Monte Vesuuio, in Napoli, s.n., 1650
  • Rerum sacrarum syluula. Auctore Michaele Monacho canonico Capuano. Opus posthumum. Accurante Camillo Tutino, Romae, ex typographia reu. Camerae Apostolicae, 1655
  • Discorsi de sette officij ouero de sette grandi del Regno di Napoli di don Camillo Tutini napoletano. Parte prima. Nella quale si tratta, del Contestabile, del Maestro Giustitieri, e dell'Ammirante, in Roma, per Iacomo Dragondelli, 1666
  • Historia della famiglia Blanch scritta da d. Camillo Tutini napoletano, col supplimento del signor Carlo De Lellis, in Napoli, per Ludouico Cauallo, 1670