Nelle "stanze" del poeta Cesare Rinaldi: il "Ritratto di Agostino Carracci" e il suo museo

The article presents some new documentary evidence on the patronage of the Bolognese poet Cesare Rinaldi (1558-1636), who flanked his literary activity with a vast activity as a collector and a relationship of intellectual friendship with the major painters of his time in Bologna. In particular, the relationship with Agostino Carracci is explored here and, thanks to systematic comparisons, the Self-Portrait as a Watchmaker in the Portrait of Cesare Rinaldi in his studio is identified for the first time. The authors also disclose previously unpublished documents that reconstruct the setting up of the poet's "museum", a collection of rare and curious objects, configuring a particular type of erudite studiolo that brings together paintings, objects and books in Bologna at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.