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{{Avviso|Page of the '''historical/doctrinal section''', the point of maximum intersection between [[Portale della Tradizione Ermetica|Hermetic tradition]] and [[La Tradizione Europea dell'Ipnosi — da Mesmer a Paret|magnetic tradition]]. All main statements are '''[VERIFIED]''' with direct citation and Drive link.}}

'''Francesco Maria Santinelli''' (marquis, 17th century) — cited by [[I Predecessori del Magnetismo Animale — la Catena Dottrinale Documentata da Thouret|Thouret]] in the Latinized form '''Santanelli''', and author of alchemical works under the anagram '''Fra' Marc'Antonio Crassellame Chinese''' — is the living proof of this wiki's central thesis: '''the magnetic doctrine and the Hermetic-alchemical tradition were not two separate stories, but the same network of people'''. One single person is, simultaneously: the source of the magnetic fluid theory cited by Thouret, the alchemist of the ''Ode on the Philosopher's Stone'', and a frequenter of the Hermetic cenacle of [[Cristina di Svezia]] in Rome — alongside [[Athanasius Kircher e il Magnetismo Universale|Athanasius Kircher]].

== One man, three names ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! Name !! Context !! Source
|-
| '''Santanelli''' (Latinized) || Author of ''Philosophia de magnetibus'', source of the magnetic fluid || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPaddE5ML6b5_Gs5BPRlKZXmmDHUxx-V/view Thouret, 1784]
|-
| '''Francesco Maria Santinelli''' (real name) || Marquis, poet, alchemist; ties with Cristina di Svezia || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view Lux Obnubilata]
|-
| '''Fra' Marc'Antonio Crassellame Chinese''' (anagram) || Author of the ''Ode'' on the composition of the Philosopher's Stone || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view Lux Obnubilata] · [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15k-zM9QotzoUH95NisuiUizqTGOE3I5Y/view Wirth]
|}

== Crassellame = anagram of Santinelli (DOCUMENTED) ==

'''[VERIFIED]''' The preface by Mino Gabriele to ''Lux Obnubilata'' (Edizioni Mediterranee) explicitly states:

<blockquote>
"Fra' Marcantonio Crassellame Chinese; such pseudonym […] is the anagram of the Marquis Francesco Maria Santinelli. The discovery, made a few years ago by the publishing house Archè." — ''Lux Obnubilata'', preface
</blockquote>

🔗 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view ''Lux Obnubilata. Reproduction of the ode and Italian translation of the anonymous commentary of the 1666 Venetian edition'' — edited by S. Andreani, pref. M. Gabriele, Edizioni Mediterranee — Drive ISI-CNV]

== The magnetic face: Santanelli in Thouret ==

'''[VERIFIED]''' [[I Predecessori del Magnetismo Animale — la Catena Dottrinale Documentata da Thouret|Thouret]] cites Santanelli as one of the main sources of the pre-Mesmeric theory of the fluid. His ''Philosophia recondita, sive magicae magneticae… scientiae explanatio'' (Cologne, 1723) describes an '''immaterial spirit that flows from the sky and flows back''' perpetually:

<blockquote>
"Ab æthere spiritus hic perpetuò fluit et ad idem refluit, etc." — Santanelli, ''Philosophia recondita'', Aph. 38, cap. 26 (cited in Thouret, ''Recherches et doutes'', 1784)
</blockquote>

It is, word for word, the same mother-idea that [[Franz Anton Mesmer|Mesmer]] renamed "animal magnetism" a century and a half later. 🔗 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPaddE5ML6b5_Gs5BPRlKZXmmDHUxx-V/view Thouret, ''Recherches et doutes sur le magnétisme animal'', 1784 — Drive ISI-CNV]

== The Hermetic face: Crassellame and the Ode on the Stone ==

'''[VERIFIED]''' Under the name Crassellame, Santinelli wrote a famous alchemical ''Ode''. [[Oswald Wirth]] reproduced and commented on it in ''Symbolisme Hermétique'':

<blockquote>
"A i veri sapenti si discorre teoricamente sopra la compositione della Pietra de' Philosophi di Fra Marc'Antonio Crassellame Chinese. […] Era dal nulla uscito / Il tenebroso Chaos, massa difforme / Al primo suon d'Omnipotente Labro…" — cited in Wirth, ''Le Symbolisme Hermétique''
</blockquote>

🔗 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15k-zM9QotzoUH95NisuiUizqTGOE3I5Y/view O. Wirth, ''Le Symbolisme Hermétique'' — Drive ISI-CNV]

== The nexus: the cenacle of Cristina di Svezia (DOCUMENTED) ==

Here the two traditions physically touch. '''[VERIFIED]''' ''Lux Obnubilata'' documents that Santinelli's relationship with '''[[Cristina di Svezia]]''' began in December 1655, when the Queen, traveling to Rome, was '''a guest at the Santinelli house in Pesaro'''. And it describes the Roman Hermetic cenacle:

<blockquote>
"As is well known, during her Roman stays Cristina di Svezia surrounded herself with figures certainly not lacking in alchemical interests; among them I recall Francesco Borri, the Marquis Massimiliano Palombara, and Father '''Athanasius Kircher'''. Direct contact with this 'court' undoubtedly allowed Santinelli to deepen his 'curiosity' towards the science of Hermes." — ''Lux Obnubilata'', preface
</blockquote>

This is the decisive point: '''[[Athanasius Kircher e il Magnetismo Universale|Kircher]]''' (author of the ''Magnes'' and the ''experimentum mirabile'' of the hen) and '''Santinelli/Crassellame''' (source of Thouret's magnetic doctrine, alchemist of the Stone) frequented '''the same Roman cenacle''', that of Cristina di Svezia, together with Borri and the Marquis Palombara (the latter linked to the famous ''Porta Ermetica'' of Rome).

== Santinelli and Gualdi (DOCUMENTED) ==

'''The relationship is master → disciple, not an encounter among equals.''' [[Philosophia Hermetica di Federico Gualdi|Federico Gualdi]] was in Venice '''from 1642''' (when Santinelli, born in 1627, was a boy) and remained there until 1682. When Santinelli, after following [[Cristina di Svezia]], retired to Venice, '''Gualdi had already been there for about twenty years''' as a reference Hermetic figure. Santinelli entered his circle as a disciple and patron (he financed the ''Androgenes Hermeticus'', 1680). Gualdi '''precedes''' Santinelli and forms him — he is an '''earlier''' link in the chain, alongside [[Johannes Bureus e la Cabala Runica|Bureus]].

'''Santinelli is therefore the node connecting two strands''': the '''Roman''' one ([[Cristina di Svezia]] → [[Athanasius Kircher e il Magnetismo Universale|Kircher]]) and the '''Venetian''' one ([[Philosophia Hermetica di Federico Gualdi|Gualdi]] → [[I Rosacroce d'Oro|Golden Rosicrucians]]).

'''[VERIFIED]''' The ''Philosophia Hermetica di Federico Gualdi'' (edited by A. Boella and A. Galli, Edizioni Mediterranee) specifies the biographical data and the link with Gualdi. Citing C. Francovich, ''Storia della massoneria in Italia'':

<blockquote>
"The Marquis Santinelli (1627-1697), poet, philosopher, and occultist admitted to the retinue of Maria Cristina di Svezia, after his adventurous marriage, had retired to Venice […]; there he became part of a group of occultists gravitating around the mysterious figure of Federico Gualdo." — cited in ''Philosophia Hermetica'', edited by Boella & Galli
</blockquote>

The same source clarifies that the Santinelli–Gualdi encounter was not a simple «possible Venetian meeting» but «'''a historically certain and lasting relationship, as proven by documents'''». Santinelli was also «the organizer of the celebrations in honor of the passage of Queen Cristina di Svezia through Pesaro, in December 1655», after which «the queen welcomed him to Rome as a gentleman of the court».

'''[VERIFIED]''' The same ''Philosophia Hermetica'' attributes the discovery to '''Pericle Maruzzi''': «Poet and alchemist, he wrote under the pseudonym of Fra Marcantonio Crassellame Chinese; and […] the first, in modern times, to identify the true author as Francesco Maria Santinelli was Pericle Maruzzi». 🔗 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RarcRuJ_uDhT1AwMOKz39u-q0cLcJw3f/view ''Philosophia Hermetica di Federico Gualdi'', edited by Boella & Galli — Drive ISI-CNV]

See the dedicated page: [[Philosophia Hermetica di Federico Gualdi]].

'''Biographical data (DOCUMENTED):''' Francesco Maria Santinelli, marquis, '''1627-1697'''; poet, philosopher, occultist; in the retinue of Cristina di Svezia; retired to Venice under the imperial protection of Leopold I.

== Why Santinelli is the keystone ==

Academic historiography has always separated:
* the '''history of hypnotism''' (Mesmer → [[Charles Lafontaine — Il Magnetizzatore Franco-Svizzero|Lafontaine]] → [[John Braid e il Braidismo — La Versione Corretta della Storia|Braid]] → [[Paret Method]])
* the '''history of Hermetic alchemy''' (Crassellame, Gualdi, [[I Rosacroce d'Oro|Golden Rosicrucians]])

Santinelli demonstrates that '''it was always one single story'''. The same man that [[I Predecessori del Magnetismo Animale — la Catena Dottrinale Documentata da Thouret|Thouret cites as a predecessor of Mesmer]] is the alchemist of the Ode commented on by Wirth, and was in the cenacle of Cristina di Svezia alongside [[Athanasius Kircher e il Magnetismo Universale|Kircher]]. Not an analogy: the '''same person'''.

== Documentation status ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! Statement !! Status !! Source
|-
| Crassellame = anagram of Francesco Maria Santinelli || ✅ VERIFIED || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view Lux Obnubilata]
|-
| Santanelli source of the magnetic fluid (Aph. 38) || ✅ VERIFIED || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPaddE5ML6b5_Gs5BPRlKZXmmDHUxx-V/view Thouret 1784]
|-
| Ode on the Stone by Crassellame || ✅ VERIFIED || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15k-zM9QotzoUH95NisuiUizqTGOE3I5Y/view Wirth]
|-
| Cristina di Svezia guest at Santinelli house (1655) || ✅ VERIFIED || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view Lux Obnubilata]
|-
| Roman cenacle: Santinelli + Kircher + Borri + Palombara || ✅ VERIFIED || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view Lux Obnubilata]
|-
| Santinelli financed Gualdi's Androgenes Hermeticus (1680) || ✅ VERIFIED || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view Lux Obnubilata]
|}

== Primary sources (Drive links) ==

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL49Bx7wn3XA0sKBa9BFRJdaAzNdvaw4/view 🔗 ''Lux Obnubilata''] — the Ode by Crassellame with the anonymous commentary of 1666; the preface (Mino Gabriele, Ed. Mediterranee) documents the Santinelli/Crassellame identity and the cenacle of Cristina di Svezia
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPaddE5ML6b5_Gs5BPRlKZXmmDHUxx-V/view 🔗 Thouret, ''Recherches et doutes sur le magnétisme animal'' (1784)] — cites Santanelli as a source of the magnetic fluid theory
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15k-zM9QotzoUH95NisuiUizqTGOE3I5Y/view 🔗 O. Wirth, ''Le Symbolisme Hermétique''] — reproduces Crassellame's Ode on the Philosopher's Stone
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RarcRuJ_uDhT1AwMOKz39u-q0cLcJw3f/view 🔗 F. Gualdi, ''Philosophia Hermetica''] (edited by Boella & Galli) — linked to Santinelli via the Androgenes Hermeticus (digitization in progress)

== See also ==

* [[I Predecessori del Magnetismo Animale — la Catena Dottrinale Documentata da Thouret]]
* [[Athanasius Kircher e il Magnetismo Universale]]
* [[Portale della Tradizione Ermetica]]
* [[Franz Anton Mesmer]]
* [[I Rosacroce d'Oro]]
* [[La Tradizione Europea dell'Ipnosi — da Mesmer a Paret]]
* [[Paret Method]]

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== Documented anecdotes ==

The initiatic network in which Santinelli moved is documented by the ''Philosophia Hermetica'' (Boella & Galli). Santinelli was welcomed in Rome as a gentleman of the court by Queen Cristina di Svezia after having organized her celebrations in Pesaro in 1655. His environment, that of the Golden Cross, used a precise symbology: Ludovico Conti, a physician active in Venice, was called on the title page «Ordinis trium Magorum Eques in viridi Cruce simbolica» — Knight of the Order of the Three Magi at the symbolic Green Cross, surmounted by the letters «A. M. D. G.».

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:''Sources of the anecdotes:'' [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RarcRuJ_uDhT1AwMOKz39u-q0cLcJw3f/view F. Gualdi, ''Philosophia Hermetica'' (Drive)] · [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pLZ4RsoOO9-PTpFXVqje1RtwetOGC0NM/view Boella & Galli, ''L'alchimia della confraternita'' (Drive)].

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