Alfonso Ceccarelli

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Alfonso Ceccarelli
Born1532
DiedJuly 9, 1583
Rome, Italy
Cause of deathexecution by decapitation
Occupation
  • physician
  • genealogist
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.

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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]

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References

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