Giovanni Camillo Glorioso

Giovanni Camillo Glorioso, also written Gloriosi, born in the village of Montecorvino Rovella near Salerno in 1572 and dead on 8 January 1643, was an Italian mathematician and astronomer, a friend of Marino Ghetaldi and Galileo's successor as professor of mathematics at Padua. He took degrees in philosophy and theology at the University of Naples and studied mathematics with Vincenzo Filliucci and Giovanni Giacomo Staserio at the Jesuit college there. A friend and correspondent of Galileo, he replaced him as professor of mathematics at Padua in 1613 and became famous for his observations of the comet of 1618, of Mars and of Saturn. He was a close friend of the mathematician Antonio Santini and was involved in bitter arguments with the Aristotelian philosophers Scipione Chiaramonti and Fortunio Liceti and with the Swiss mathematician Barthélemy Souvey, who succeeded him in the Padua chair in 1624.