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Tommaso Campailla: Materia dei sogni e ipocondria di un eclettico

2007

Born on 7th April 1668 in Modica, Ciceronian 'Agrum Motucanum', the Modican county of Chiaramontes and Chiabreras, Tommaso Campailla, a poet and a physician, is mostly known as the author of a philosophical poem in octaves--Adam or the Created World. In his 1727 Problemi naturali [Natural Problems], his essay Del disordinato discorso dell'uomo [On Man's Disorderly Discourse] distinguishes itself by its intellectual wit on both the speculative and the experimental research aspects. He formulates concepts on the darkness which often reason has to fare through; he substantializes the body/soul syncretic dimension, and underlines how this disrupts the perfect bodily mechanism. His observations …