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Camillo Tutini

1594 – 1666

Italian historian

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Lived 1594 – 1666 (aged 71–72). Camillo Tutini was an Italian writer and historian.

Camillo Tutini (15948 August 1666) was an Italian historian, mainly of the Neapolitan region.

Life Camillo Tutini was born in Naples probably in 1594. His family originated from Sant'Angelo a Fasanella, in the province of Salerno. Tutini often mentioned that one of his ancestors, Landolfo Tutini, received land in Fasanella in 1246 from the Emperor Frederick II. However, by the time of Camillo Tutini's birth his family was impoverished. Camillo had four sisters – Laudomia, Ippolita, Lella, Livia and one brother – Metello.

Having reached the proper age, he entered the famous Certosa di San Martino in Naples, where some of his relatives had lived as monks in earlier centuries. Later at the age of about twenty-five, he left the charterhouse to continue studying and to be ordained a priest. Between 1628 and 1630 he lived in Naples with his mother and two of his sisters. At that time, Tutini started his correspondence with Ferdinando Ughelli, a librarian at the Vatican and the famous editor of Italia Sacra, and Bartolomeo Chioccarello, with whom he closely cooperated. In Rome, he entered the service on Cardinal Francesco Barberini, having obtained several modest donations. He also worked in Viterbo organizing the library of Cardinal Azzolino. Tutini always struggled with poverty until he died in Rome in 1666 in the Ospedale di Santo Spirito. Several of his manuscript works are preserved today in the Brancacciana collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples.

Tutini befriended and collaborated with many of the most prominent scholars of his age, including Antonio Amico, Agostino Inveges, Lucas Holstenius and Leo Allatius.

Works Memorie della vita miracoli, e culto di San Gianuario martire vescovo di Benevento, e principal protettore della città di Napoli. Raccolte da don Camillo Tutini Napoletano, in Napoli, appresso Ottavio Beltrano, 1633 Notitie della vita, e miracoli di due santi Gaudiosi, l'uno vescovo di Bittinia, e l'altro di Salerno: e del martirio di Santa 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 Vescovo di Sebaste. Comprabata col'autorità di gravissimi autori per Don Camillo Tutini napoletano, in Napoli, per Lazaro Scrigno, 1635 Historia della famiglia Blanch, in Napoli, nella Stamparia di Ottavio 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 published by Beltrano, Naples, 1644. - About the foundation of the Seggi or Sedili of Naples (six administrative units, mainly composed of aristocrats, based on neighborhoods) Prodigiosi portenti del Monte Vesuvio, in Napoli, s.n., 1650 Rerum sacrarum sylvula. Auctore Michaele Monacho canonico Capuano. Opus posthumum. Accurante Camillo Tutino, Romae, ex typographia reu. Camerae Apostolicae, 1655 Discorsi de sette officij overo 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 (containing a biography of the Contemporary General Gian Tomaso Blanch who fought for the Spanish Army), by Don Camillo Tutini with supplement by Carlo De Lellis, Published by Ludovico Cavallo, Naples, 1670.

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Italian historian

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Camillo Tutini died on 8 August 1666 in Rome.

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Camillo Tutini was a writer and historian.

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