Vanini e l’origine dell’uomo: ambiguità, malizia e dissimulazione nel Dialogo XXXVII del De admirandis

Mario Carparelli

doi:10.19283/lph-202411.869

Vanini e l’origine dell’uomo: ambiguità, malizia e dissimulazione nel Dialogo XXXVII del De admirandis

Authors

Mario Carparelli Università del Salento

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19283/lph-202411.869

Keywords:

Vanini, Darwin, Transformism, Dissimulation, Libertinism

Abstract

At the end of the eighteenth century, Julius Caesar Vanini was considered a precursor of Lamarck and Darwin for his transformative view of biology, which is expressed in particular in Dialogo XXXVII of De admirandis (Paris 1616), where, through a game of simulation and dissimulation based on ambiguity and mischief, he presents radical theses on the origin of man, in stark contrast to creationism and fixism.

English title: Vanini and the Origin of Man: Ambiguity, Malice and Dissimulation in Dialogue XXXVII of De admirandis