Claudio Achillini

Claudio Achillini (* 1574 in Bologna, † 1640) was the grandson of Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and the great-nephew of Alessandro Achillini and an Italian philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, poet and librettist.

In addition to general science and medicine, he studied mainly jurisprudence. He taught in Bologna as in Ferrara and Parma as a professor and joined Pope Gregory XV. , King Louis XIII. and Cardinal Richelieu in closer relationship. The latter is to him a gold chain worth 1000 crowns for a canzone, which was addressed to Louis XII occasion of the birth of the heir apparent, have offered.

He died in 1640 on his estate. As a poet ( Rime e Prose, Venice 1673 ), he followed the marinism.