# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerianus-magnus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:29.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerianus-magnus"
name: "Valerianus Magnus"
slug: "valerianus-magnus"
description: "Valerianus Magnus or Valeriano Magni was an Italian Capuchin, missionary preacher in Central Europe, philosopher, polemicist and author. He was one of the pioneers with the Torricelli's experiment and published one of the first accounts of it, the Demonstratio ocularis."
tagline: "Italian Capuchin friar (1586-1661)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anonymous_Valeriano_Magni_(detail).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1586-10-11"
deathDate: "1661-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.55
  momentum:             7.241379310344828
  historical:           5.671094666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_von_Magnis"
    title: "Valerian von Magnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_von_Magnis"
    title: "Valerian von Magnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_Magni"
    title: "Valerian Magni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriano_Magni"
    title: "Valeriano Magni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerianus_Magnus"
    title: "Valerianus Magnus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rien_Magni"
    title: "Valérien Magni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731365"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump