Article ID: CBB556818038

Magia e chirofisonomia nel panorama della Controriforma: Pompeo Sarnelli e il recupero di Giovan Battista Della Porta (2016)

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The article proposes an analysis of the contribution given by Pompeo Sarnelli, a bishop and Apulian erudite who lived between the 17th and 18th centuries, to the rehabilitation of the figure of Giovan Battista Della Porta, a Neapolitan scientist who worked between the 15th and 16th centuries. This paper highlights Sarnelli’s and Della Porta’s opinions about natural magic and chiromancy. Though Sarnelli was an ecclesiastic, he spent a great part of his life studying disciplines which are not strictly theological, such as epigraphy, history and literature. On the other hand, Della Porta’s writings were often deemed as quite controversial by the Catholic church. Nonetheless, Sarnelli recovered the chiromantic work written by Della Porta, who had never published it himself because of the lack of a printing license. In the end, Sarnelli managed to publish it by making changes in the text and introducing topics that were deemed interesting at the time.

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Authors & Contributors
Saito, Fumikazu
Verardi, Donato
Balbiani, Laura
Bianchi, Lorenzo
Conforti, Maria
Copenhaver, Brian P.
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Perspectives on Science
Studi dellaportiani
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Publishers
Firenze University Press
Cambridge University Press
Agorà
Centro Di
Olschki
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Concepts
Natural magic
Occult sciences
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Science and religion
Alchemy
People
Della Porta, Giovan Battista
Campanella, Tommaso
Bruno, Giordano
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Cardano, Girolamo
Time Periods
17th century
Renaissance
16th century
18th century
Early modern
15th century
Places
Italy
Naples (Italy)
Paris (France)
India
Mesopotamia
Rome (Italy)
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