Ottavio Scarlattini (1623-1699), a learned Bolognese clergyman, authored many books on various subjects. Among his works the treatise L’Huomo, e sue parti (Man and its parts), published in 1683, achieved a European level success, thanks to a Latin translation. A few years before, Scarlattini printed a large book in defence of Epicurus’s philosophy; he claimed that this philosophy had been badly misunderstood over the centuries, and that Epicurus’s true doctrine is very different from subsequent deformations.
Milanese, G. F., Una conversione epicurea nel sec. XVII: Ottavio Scarlattini, i due Epicuri e Lucrezio dimenticato, in Paladini, M. (ed.), Templa serena: studi in onore di Enrico Flores, Federico II Open Access University Press, Napoli 2021: 373- 384. 10.6093/978-88-6887-101-7 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/183546]
Una conversione epicurea nel sec. XVII: Ottavio Scarlattini, i due Epicuri e Lucrezio dimenticato
Milanese, Guido FabrizioPrimo
2021
Abstract
Ottavio Scarlattini (1623-1699), a learned Bolognese clergyman, authored many books on various subjects. Among his works the treatise L’Huomo, e sue parti (Man and its parts), published in 1683, achieved a European level success, thanks to a Latin translation. A few years before, Scarlattini printed a large book in defence of Epicurus’s philosophy; he claimed that this philosophy had been badly misunderstood over the centuries, and that Epicurus’s true doctrine is very different from subsequent deformations.
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