Ottavio Scarlattini (1623 – 1699) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and theologian.[1]
Biography edit
Ottavio Scarlattini became a Canon Regular of the Lateran at Bologna in 1639, and then he was appointed Archpriest of Villa Fontana in Medicina.[1] Scarlattini's 1679 publication Dell'Epicuro contro gli epicurei was an 830 page treatise arguing for the beatification of Epicurus in which he defended Epicureanism as a philosophy.[2] Translated into Latin, the work became well known across Europe.[3] His 1683 publication L'huomo, e sue parti figurato, e simbolico, anatomico, rationale, morale, mistico, politico, e legale was a discourse on the symbolism of the parts of the human body; giving each part an anatomical, rational, moral, mystic, political, and legal analysis.[4]
Works edit
- Del Davide musico armato: idea dell'ottimo prencipe ecclesiastico, e secolare. Bologna: Gioseffo Longhi. 1677.
- Dell'Epicuro contro gli epicurei. Bologna: Giacomo Monti. 1679.
- L'huomo, e sue parti figurato, e simbolico, anatomico, rationale, morale, mistico, politico, e legale. Bologna: Giacomo Monti. 1683.
- Analoghe proportioni sopra il non anche risoluto problema d'Euclide per la quadratura del circolo. Bologna: Pietro Maria Monti. 1690.
Sources edit
- ^ a b Fantuzzi, Giovanni (1789). "Scarlattini Ottavio". Notizie degli Scrittori Bolognesi (in Italian). Vol. 7. Bologna: Stamperia di S. Tommaso D'Aquino. pp. 355–359.
- ^ Eugenio Garin (2008). History of Italian Philosophy. Brill Publishers. p. 1238. ISBN 9789401205221.
- ^ Guido Milanese (2021). "Una conversione epicurea nel sec. XVII: Ottavio Scarlattini, i due Epicuri e Lucrezio dimenticato". In Mariantonietta Paladini (ed.). Templa serena: studi in onore di Enrico Flores. Federico II University Press. p. 373. ISBN 9788868871017.
- ^ David Mason Greene (1958). Mediaeval Backgrounds of the Elizabethan Emblem-book. University of California, Berkeley. p. 48.
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