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Current Research: Palombara and the Porta Magica in Rome
Posted on August 13, 2013 by BPH
Maria Fiammetta Iovine is researching that enigmatic and enthralling remaining monument of the villa of Massimiliano Palombara,
marquis of Pietraforte (16141685), as she informed The Ritman Library when she paid a visit in March this year. Her email address
is added below for anyone wishing to contact her on her research into Count Palombara. The following presents a brief précis of
her current research.
Although much has been written on the Porta Magica itself, she believes that the biography of marquis Palombara needs to be
taken into account to solve the puzzle of the Porta Magica.
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Author Dan Brown donates to digitize ancient
Here are some of the more significant facts from the life of Palombara that are already known:
texts, 16 Jun 2016 in Blog
On 13 October 1652 Palombara affirms to have received a revelation of the arcana natura A tribute to Gilles Quispel: Symposion ‘God is
Palombara’s acquaintance with the wellknown practititoner of alchemy Francesco Giuseppe Borri (16271695) stems from at Geestig’ – Amsterdam MAY 2016, 15 Apr 2016
least 1654 in Blog&Events
In 1656 Palombara openly refers to the Fraternitas Rosicruciana (or, as he calls it, the Aurea or Rosea Croce) Symposium ‘The Greatness of the Human
Fiammetta Iovine believes Palombara was already familiar with the Rosy Cross before the arrival of Christina of Sweden in Rome Mind’ – London MAY 2016, 15 Apr 2016 in
in December 1655, having gained the arcana of alchemy without her patronage and despite the close friendship they entertained Blog&Events
through life. She also thinks that Palombara wrote the first manuscript version of La Bugia in 1656 possibly with the intent to be The Ritman Library will move to the House with
admitted to a Rosicrucian circle, a ‘master proof’, as it were, as he showed his intimate knowledge of alchemy by allegorically the Heads, 23 Feb 2016 in Blog
covering the whole Opus alchemicum.
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Hermetic Adventures: A Student’s Travels into
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Worlds Unknown, 29 Dec 2015 in Blog
Hermetische Wijsheid – Weisheit –
Geschriften – Goddelijke Göttliche Download free ebook: Hermetically Open. Guide of the
The Esoteric Conception of Divinity in the
Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Ancient World, 27 Nov 2015 in Articles
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pdf pdf Robert Fludd, 26 Oct 2015 in Blog
Goddelijke Wijsheid – Goddelijke Natuur, 11
Aug 2015 in Blog
In memory of Dr. Ekaterina Genieva, 24 Jul
2015 in Blog
Summertime Walk 2015 – Jordaan
(Amsterdam), 27 Jun 2015 in Blog
Review ‘Master of Change: Images of Hermes
Trismegistus’ by Joe Walsh, 25 Jun 2015 in
Blog
Christina of Sweden by Jacob Ferdinand
Modern approaches to the Hermetica, 03 Jun
Voet
2015 in Blog
The Black Madonna, Gilles Quispel’s old love,
Francesco Maria Santinelli (16271697), one of Queen Christina’s gentlemen, a practitioner of alchemy and a close friend and 03 Jun 2015 in Blog
collaborator of Federico Gualdi (who himself was an adept active especially in Venice around 1660) may have been the man who
The Ritman Library on Tripadvisor, 03 Jun
promoted Palombara’s interests in this respect. The socalled Aurea and Roseacroce was an association whose recently
2015 in BPH in the Press
rediscovered statutes have been recognized by scholars to be Catholic in principle, though openly “tolerant”, and inspired by
ancient chivalry. The Emerald Tablet, 29 May 2015 in Recent
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Another line of investigation she is pursuing concerns the relationship between this circle of Italian practitioners of alchemy and Exhibition ‘Göttliche Weisheit – Göttliche Natur
their use of Hermetic poetry as a way of both “transferring” their knowledge under a set of conventional “disguises” and still in Basel, Switzerland, 08 May 2015 in Blog
recognizing one another as initiates. Both Santinelli and Palombara produced a large number of Hermetic poems, most of which A tribute to Jacob Böhme: Morgenröte im
have remained unpublished. Palombara’s poetry and his scholarly Rimario especially still await further study. Aufgang, 29 Apr 2015 in Blog
Review of the exhibition ‘Master of Change:
Images of Hermes Trismegistus’ (Spanish), 04
Mar 2015 in Blog
Where more is meant: Alchemical Imagery in
Milton’s “Il Penseroso”, 04 Mar 2015 in
Blog&Global Hermetic Circle
GNOSTIKA: Göttliche Weisheit – Göttliche
Natur, 03 Mar 2015 in BPH in the Press
The flesh of heaven…almost already redeemed
& the question of ‘mercy’., 20 Jan 2015 in Blog
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Hermes Trismegistus, 22 Dec 2014 in Blog
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after Hermes Trismegistus, 21 Dec 2014 in
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fabulous display, 15 Years of Fireworks on
Amsterdam’s Bloemgracht, 16 Dec 2014 in
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Nov 2014 in Blog
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the Press
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Hermetic tradition, 21 Nov 2014 in Articles
International Conference ‘Um 1600’, 31 Oct
2014 in Blog
Preface Divine Wisdom – Divine Nature |
Göttliche Weisheit – Göttliche Natur, 30 Aug
2014 in Blog&Global Hermetic Circle
Per Unum – Ad Unum, 20 Dec 2013 in Articles
Böhme’s legacy abused!, 16 Dec 2013 in
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“God is an infinite sphere…”, 09 Dec 2013 in
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Questions that Fiammetta Iovine has been asking herself in the course of her research are: As Santinelli, Gualdi and Borri are often
Solomon’s Secret Arts, 13 Nov 2013 in Recent
referred to as members of an Italian Rosicrucian circle in contact with “peers” in the rest of the then known world, what exactly was
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Palombara’s relationship to them? Is it through them that he became acquainted with authors like Mynsicht/Madathanus and
MonteSnyder, as the Porta Magica clearly shows? And why would he carve in stone, on the jambs, sill and architrave of a door, his Bruiloft by Claudy Jongstra (De Ketelfactory
mastery of Hermetic knowledge and secrets in 1680? 2013)., 08 Nov 2013 in Recent Acquisitions
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Through Santinelli, the thread connecting alchemy, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry in Italy becomes visible. As Massimiliano The Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch, 23
Palombara is a major player in the context that has been briefly outlined above by Fiammetta Iovine, and given the broad Hermetic Oct 2013 in Recent Acquisitions (Close)
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interests of Christina, her closeness to protomasonic circles and her friendship with Athanasius Kircher (16021680), the Jesuit Two new volumes on Christian Kabbala, 06 Oct
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who, among his numerous scientific works, revived the interest in hieroglyphs and claimed to have been able to explain them in his Download Free Chapters
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Hermetische Wijsheid – Weisheit –
Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta (1643), it is her belief that we should look at the Porta Magica as a sophisticated and complex legacy
Geschriften – Goddelijke Göttliche Download free ebook: Hermetically Open. Guide of the
Searching for the Soror Mystica, 30 Sep 2013
expressing the historical conjunction between alchemy, kabbalah and the ancient tradition of Egyptian mysteries in the 17th
ebook Natuur ebook Natur – ebook Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
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century.
pdf pdf Contemporary Esotericism, 23 Sep 2013 in
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Contact details:
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fiammetta_i@yahoo.it
Additional information: Exhibition – ‘Beauty as the Imprint of the
Fiammetta Iovine has conducted archival and bibliographical research for Jason d’Argot’s La bugia di pietra, a Hermetic novel cosmos’, 14 Aug 2013 in Blog
placing the Porta Magica of Massimiliano Palombara in its historical and philosophical context in light of some new evidence and Hermes on Holiday, 14 Aug 2013 in Blog
intriguing interpretations. The book is to be published by La Lepre Edizioni, Rome, in November 2013.
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