Vanini´s rare Amphitheatrum 1615
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RARE BURNT WORK. VANINI, JULIO CAESARE. Amphitheatrum aeternae providentiae divino-magicum. Christiano-physicum, nec non astrologo-catholicum. Aduersus veteres philosophos, atheos, epicureos, peripateticos, & stoicos... Lugduni (apud Viduam Antonii de Harsy) 1615.
8:o. (24), 1.336, (8) pp.
Contemporary vellum, somewhat warped upper cover, spine lettered in ink, black edges. Leaf signed +2 with some paperloss in outer margin and a signature dated 1893 written in upper margin. First endpaper with annotation and signature of J. N. Fremling dated 1801, anioher signature dated Lund 1893, old annotation on inside of upper cover Friederic. Gottl. Georgis, signature of A. Kahl.
First edition. Dorbon: Bibliotheca Esoterica, 5060.
Lucilio Vanini (Taurisano, 1585 - Toulouse, 1619), who in his works styled himself Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) Vanini, was an Italian philosopher, physician and free-thinker, who was one of the first significant representatives of intellectual libertinism. He was among the first modern thinkers who viewed the universe as an entity governed by natural laws (nomological determinism). He was also the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
Vanini was born at Taurisano near Lecce, and studied philosophy and theology at Naples. Afterwards, he applied himself to the physical studies - chiefly medicine and astronomy - which had come into vogue with the renaissance. Like Giordano Bruno, he attacked scholasticism.
From Naples he went to Padua, where he came under the influence of the Alexandrist Pietro Pomponazzi, whom he styled his divine master. Subsequently he led a roving life in France, Switzerland and the Low Countries, supporting himself by giving lessons and disseminating radical ideas. He was obliged to flee to England in1612, but was imprisoned in London for forty-nine days.
Returning to Italy, he made an attempt to teach in Genoa, but was driven again to France, where he tried to clear himself of suspicion by publishing a book against atheism: Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum (1615). Though the definitions of God are somewhat pantheistic, the book served its immediate purpose. Although Vanini did not expound his true views in his first book, he did in his second: De Admirandis Naturae Reginae Deaeque Mortalium Arcanis (Paris, 1616). This was originally certified by two doctors of the Sorbonne, but was later re-examined and condemned.
Vanini then left Paris, where he had been staying as chaplain to the Marechal de Bassompierre, and began to teach in Toulouse. In November 1618, he was arrested and, after a prolonged trial, was condemned to have his tongue cut out, to be strangled at the stake, and to have his body burned to ashes. The sentence was executed on 9 February 1619. (Wikipedia).
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2015-06-16