Manfredo Settala, son of the famous physician Ludovico Settala was an Italian cleric and scientist.
10 Facts About Manfredo Settala
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Manfredo Settala studied at the universities of Pisa and Siena, where he befriended Fabio Chigi.
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In 1655 Manfredo Settala traveled to Rome to witness the election of his friend Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII, partially in the hope that papal benediction of his museum would increase its size and prestige; he took advantage of this trip to initiate his relationship with the German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher.
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Manfredo Settala was inspired to form his own collection at the age of fifteen after a visit to the Ducal Palace at Mantua, where he saw incredible treasures.
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Manfredo Settala accumulated numerous archeological relics, paintings, manuscripts and curiosities, which were displayed to visiting scholars.
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Manfredo Settala purchased large numbers of clocks, mathematical and astronomical instruments, and experimental physics apparatus, which were exhibited in his museum in addition to numerous mechanisms, instruments and devices of his own design and construction.
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The museum created by Manfredo Settala was in its day one of the most important cultural institutions in Milan and was internationally famous.
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Visitors such as the German physicist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, one of the pioneers of porcelain manufacture in Europe, traveled to Milan specifically to meet Manfredo Settala and discuss his inventions with him.
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Manfredo Settala bequeathed his collection of objects of natural history, instruments of various sorts, and pictures, to the Ambrosian Library.
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Manfredo Settala's collection was cataloged and described by the Italian physicist and philosopher Paolo Maria Terzago.