The Seventh Prince of Sansevero
Life and invention by Raimondo di Sangro, Seventh Prince of Sansevero (1710 – 1771)
Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, is one of the most interesting personalities of Neapoletan ‘700, leader of one of the oldest and most prestigious families of the Kingdom of Naples, friend of King Carlo III, first Grand Master of the italian Freemasonry.
But, most of all, the Prince was a lover of Knowledge, devoted to studies and research, author of brilliant writings: his numerous inventions, his bizarre experiments, his writings, testimony the multiplicity of his interests and, at the same time, the wideness and deepness of his knowledge, revealing his nature of enlightened intellectual, focused on the most forwarding cultural themes of his times and, at the same time, well present in the darkest aspects of traditional doctrines.
The Prince has been a philosopher, in the Alchemic sense of the term, and has been an Alchemist himself, dedicating his whole existence to a passionate research of Nature and Life’s mysteries, conjugating ancient hermetic theories with an intense experimental practice of bizarre and singular experiments and invetions, in the spirit of Rosacrux’s tradition.
Prince of Sansevero, well known for his mysterious chapel, has dedicated his life with passion to physics and chemistry experiments, to the creation and development of mechanical instruments and new procedures and techniques, in civil and military fields.
The historical feature film based on the life of this famous character, belonging to Napoli’s Kingdom’s nobility, is suitable to draw a painting of Napoli in the ‘700: at that time the city was the most populated, important and economically active in Italy; as second city in the whole Europe, after Paris, 4 times bigger than Rome and 2 times bigger than Milan, exquisite capital of baroque arts, already supplied with an excellent sewerage system, being the first city in the world to have running water in each house.
Raimondo di Sangro Prince of Sansevero Copyright: © SIAE Olaf - 2012
The movie Raimondo di Sangro Prince of Sansevero © Pasquale Lenza-Vittorio Dublino [Rebel Alliance produzioni]
Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, is one of the most interesting personalities of Neapoletan ‘700, leader of one of the oldest and most prestigious families of the Kingdom of Naples, friend of King Carlo III, first Grand Master of the italian Freemasonry.
But, most of all, the Prince was a lover of Knowledge, devoted to studies and research, author of brilliant writings: his numerous inventions, his bizarre experiments, his writings, testimony the multiplicity of his interests and, at the same time, the wideness and deepness of his knowledge, revealing his nature of enlightened intellectual, focused on the most forwarding cultural themes of his times and, at the same time, well present in the darkest aspects of traditional doctrines.
The Prince has been a philosopher, in the Alchemic sense of the term, and has been an Alchemist himself, dedicating his whole existence to a passionate research of Nature and Life’s mysteries, conjugating ancient hermetic theories with an intense experimental practice of bizarre and singular experiments and invetions, in the spirit of Rosacrux’s tradition.
Prince of Sansevero, well known for his mysterious chapel, has dedicated his life with passion to physics and chemistry experiments, to the creation and development of mechanical instruments and new procedures and techniques, in civil and military fields.
The historical feature film based on the life of this famous character, belonging to Napoli’s Kingdom’s nobility, is suitable to draw a painting of Napoli in the ‘700: at that time the city was the most populated, important and economically active in Italy; as second city in the whole Europe, after Paris, 4 times bigger than Rome and 2 times bigger than Milan, exquisite capital of baroque arts, already supplied with an excellent sewerage system, being the first city in the world to have running water in each house.
Raimondo di Sangro Prince of Sansevero Copyright: © SIAE Olaf - 2012
The movie Raimondo di Sangro Prince of Sansevero © Pasquale Lenza-Vittorio Dublino [Rebel Alliance produzioni]