Dirk Ameyden

Dirk Ameyden or Teodoro Amideno (1586–1656) was a canonist and journalist from the Low Countries who was active in 17th-century Rome.

Life Ameyden was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, in the Duchy of Brabant, the son of Gerrit Ameyden and Maria a Camper. From 1598, he served as a page to Cardinal Andrew of Austria, in whose entourage he travelled to Constance in 1599 and to Rome in 1600. He returned to Rome in 1604 to study at the Collegium Romanum. His uncle, Christiaan Ameyden, a singer in the Sistine Chapel Choir, died in 1605, leaving Dirk a house on the Via Condotti. Dirk remained a layman and in 1606 married the Roman Barbara Fabrini, later building a family home on Via di Monte Giordano.

Ameyden was closely involved in the Dutch-Flemish community in Rome, especially with the hospital of Santa Maria dell'Anima, a 14th-century Dutch foundation, on the board of which he served.

Trattato della natura del vino: e del ber caldo e freddo (Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1608) Tractatus de officio et jurisdictione Datarii (Venice, 1654)