bloodthirsty vampires who attack in the night. Men and women possessed by the devil and forced to survive on a life of grief, magic, terror.
to Italy and to Europe in the Eighteenth century - even before it stating the Enlightenment and Reason - a high priest fights against these superstitions. You Davanzati Joseph, archbishop of Trani, intellectual and scholar educated and polished. His "thesis" is a track of the emerging Italian rationalist thought but it is also a testimony to the imagination (the anxiety, the nightmares, the hope of rebirth) in European populations at the threshold of the modern age.
Joseph Davanzati (Bari 1665 - Trani 1755) is an emblematic figure of the first eighteenth-century Enlightenment. A tireless traveler, a personal friend of popes and kings, was among the most strenuous Davanzati supporters of the need to reconcile faith and truth, intellectual reasoning and empirical testing.
to Italy and to Europe in the Eighteenth century - even before it stating the Enlightenment and Reason - a high priest fights against these superstitions. You Davanzati Joseph, archbishop of Trani, intellectual and scholar educated and polished. His "thesis" is a track of the emerging Italian rationalist thought but it is also a testimony to the imagination (the anxiety, the nightmares, the hope of rebirth) in European populations at the threshold of the modern age.
Joseph Davanzati (Bari 1665 - Trani 1755) is an emblematic figure of the first eighteenth-century Enlightenment. A tireless traveler, a personal friend of popes and kings, was among the most strenuous Davanzati supporters of the need to reconcile faith and truth, intellectual reasoning and empirical testing.
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