Ricerc@Sapienza

Encyclopaedia biographical entry – including original research material – on Girolamo Vecchietti (1557-1640), a writer and orientalist, papal envoy to Egypt and traveller to Persia, collaborator for the Medici Press, directed by Giovanni Battista Raimondi, a follower of Beranrdino Telesio’s philosophy and a friend of Tommaso Campanella, imprisoned in papal prisons for heterodox opinions.