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The Trial Against Atheism in Naples (1688-1697). Chronology and Documentation
The book examines an important inquisitorial trial that took place in Naples between 1688 and 1697, involving a group of intellectuals accused of atomism and atheism. The documentation analyzed shows how ‘atomism’ functioned both as an ideological category and as a polemical and defamatory label. The spread of new scientific and philosophical ideas in late seventeenth-century Naples was part of a broader process of cultural renewal.
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Verifying the Truth on Their Own Terms
The book reconstructs, on the basis of a recently rediscovered text, a philosophical-theological debate that took place in 1466 at the Ottoman court of Sultan Mehmed II, centered on the controversial interpretation of divine unity (tawḥīd) in the Avicennian philosophical tradition. The study offers a new perspective on the philosophical culture of the fifteenth-century Ottoman world.