Ascanio II Piccolomini

Ascanio Piccolomini (1596–1671) was the archbishop of Siena from 1629 to 1671.^[1]

Ascanio was a mathematics pupil of Bonaventura Cavalieri.^[2] He hosted Galileo in Siena.^[3] According to Dava Sobel, Galileo's ability "to rise from the ashes of his condemnation by the Inquisition" and complete perhaps his most influential book, the Two New Sciences, was "due in large measure to Piccolomini's solicitous kindness".^[4]

He was an elder brother of the Imperial general Ottavio Piccolomini.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Carlo Fabrizio Giustiniani, Bishop of Accia and Mariana (1656).^[1]

References

Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Cheney, David M. "Archbishop Ascanio Piccolomini". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}
Back to citation The Galileo Project
Back to citation Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (2003), p. 357.
Back to citation Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter (2000), p. 287

Bibliography

Pecci, Giovanni Antonio (1748). Storia del Vescovado della città di Siena (in Italian). Lucca: Marescandoli. pp. 364–366.
Suter, Rufus (1965). "A Note on the Identity of Ascanio Piccolomini, Galileo's Host at Siena," Isis Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 1965), p. 452.

[source-CathHierAscanioII-1-1-1] Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Cheney, David M. "Archbishop Ascanio Piccolomini". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}

[2] Back to citation The Galileo Project

[3] Back to citation Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (2003), p. 357.

[4] Back to citation Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter (2000), p. 287

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