Italian mathematician and writer
Ottavio Scarlattini (1623 – 1699) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and theologian.[1]
Biography
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]
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