Alfonso Ceccarelli
Alfonso Ceccarelli | |
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| Born | 1532 Città di Castello, Italy |
| Died | July 9, 1583 Rome, Italy |
| Cause of death | execution by decapitation |
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| Relatives | Odoardo Ceccarelli (grandson) |
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.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Death and legacy
4 References
Early life
Alfonso Ceccarelli was born in 1532 in Città di Castello, Italy.[1] His father was a notary.[1]
Career
Ceccarelli was a physician and genealogist.[1] He started practising medecine 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
Ceccarelli 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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^ abc 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. Retrieved December 22, 2015 – via Cairn.info. (Registration required (help)).
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