Carlo Rimbotti

Carlo Rimbotti
Portrait of a bearded man
Portrait by Francesco Salviati (1548)
Born1518
Florence, Florentine Republic
Died1591(1591-00-00) (aged 72–73)
Alma materUniversity of Bologna
OccupationPhysician
OrganizationAccademia Fiorentina

Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591) was a Florentine physician and a member of the Accademia Fiorentina, a prominent philosophical and literary society during the Renaissance.[1]

Rimbotti studied medicine at the University of Bologna and in January 1542 he was admitted to the Accademia, where he participated actively and delivered three public lectures. The last of them, delivered in December of that year, discussed a sonnet by Petrarch.[2]

He became a practicing physician in 1543 and five years later, at the age of 30, he posed for Francesco Salviati, a fellow member of the Florentine Academy. His oil on wood portrait, completed by the Mannerist master in 1548, depicts him holding a small book next to his heart,[1] perhaps a petrarchino alluding to his last lecture at the institution.[2]

In 1565 Rimbotti submitted an incomplete genealogical study trying to link his family to the Rimbotti di Siena.[3][4]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591)". The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570. New York City, USA: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b Falciani, Carlo (January 2018). "Il ritratto di Carlo Rimbotti, un committente fiorentino di Francesco Salviati" [The portrait of Carlo Rimbotti, a Florentine client of Francesco Salviati]. Paragone Arte (in Italian) (137). Florence, Italy: Mandragora: 50–59. ISSN 1120-4737.
  3. ^ Genealogia dei Rimbotti compilata da Carlo Rimbotti, 1565-1566 Genealogy of the Rimbotti compiled by Carlo Rimbotti, 1565-1566 Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore: Studi e testi XII.1.9, c.322r
  4. ^ Rimbotti, Tomasso (2005). Del Puppo, Dario; Fabbri, Lorenzo (eds.). Rime (in Italian). Florence, Italy: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki. pp. 7, 39, 107. ISBN 8822254694. Retrieved 12 July 2021.