Giovanni Bianchi e la tradizione medico-naturalistica partenopea

Abstract

From the recovered pieces of a scientific mosaic, scattered by G. Bianchi in the correspondence with A. Catani, it emerges the image of a Neapolitan medical republic and a lively "naturaliter lincea" capital city, heir to the late seventeenth-century culture of the Accademia degli Investiganti. Despite the polemical temperament, Bianchi is able to recognize and appreciate the merits of the Neapolitan "novatores", the innovative discoveries and the printed productions of Domenico Cirillo, Domenico Cotugno, Francesco Serao and Giovanni Maria Della Torre. The itinerary traveled by the author intertwins, together with the esteem for Morgagni, the controversy over lithotomy, the condemnation of superstition and miracles, the confirmed fame of Bianchi, as an influential scholar of zoology, marine fauna and natural history.

Keywords

• g. bianchi
• a. catani
• m. vogel
• natural history