[2] Rondinelli was a close friend of Alessandro Adimari, Gabriello Chiabrera, Fulvio Testi, Carlo Roberto Dati and Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger.

[1] He devised the programme for Pietro da Cortona's fresco cycle in the so-called Planetary Rooms at Palazzo Pitti.

[3] Rondinelli’s masterpiece is the Relazione del Contagio Stato in Firenze l’anno 1630 e 1633, an account of the epidemic that struck Florence in the early 1630s.

[2] The work was commissioned to Rondinelli by the Grand Duke Ferdinando II and is based official records and interviews with survivors.

Rondinelli wrote a biography of the Florentine humanist Bernardo Davanzati, published at Florence in 1638 and reissued several times thereafter.