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'L'ADAMO, OVVERO IL MONDO CREATO' DI TOMMASO CAMPAILLA. UN CONTRIBUTO AL RINNOVAMENTO DELLA CULTURA SCIENTIFICA E LETTERARIA IN SICILIA

2022

L’articolo analizza L’Adamo, ovvero il Mondo creato, poema scientifico-filosofico di Tommaso Campailla (1668-1740), accademico modicano, che partecipò con i suoi esperimenti scientifici e la sua opera letteraria a diffondere la filosofia cartesiana e le nuove mirabili scoperte in ogni campo del sapere. Nel poema Campailla ricorre al motivo tradizionale del viaggio di conoscenza per squadernare al Primo Uomo, Adamo, le straordinarie meraviglie della creazione, tentando una sintesi tra istanze scientifiche e nuove direttrici della poesia settecentesca.

Settore L-FIL-LET/10 - Letteratura ItalianaThe article analyzes L'Adamo ovvero il Mondo creato a scientific-philosophical poem by Tommaso Campailla (1668-1740) a Modican academic who participated with his scientific experiments and his literary work to spread the Cartesian philosophy and the new wonderful discoveries in every field of knowledge. In his poem Campailla he uses the traditional motif of the journey of knowledge to square the extraordinary wonders of creation to the First Man Adam attempting a synthesis between scientific instances and new directions of eighteenth-century poetry.
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«Fetal monstrosities». A comparision of evidenze in Sicily in modern age

2013

In Sicily reflections on monsters and on ‘generative stumbles’ first appear in a treaty of the second half of the sixteenth century, containing one of the first medical-physiological descriptions of two-headed births and written in the verncular by the famous physiologist and anatomist Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia. It is a work which can be attributed to the season of excitement characterized, in the period after 1550, by an explosion of interest in teratological codification, driven by a wider taxonomic interest in the living and the inanimate, but it also contains some original features that make it a model and example of the contemporary state of the art of legal medicine, of which Ingrass…

teratology Sicily Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia wonders Holy Office Palermo
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