Marco Aurelio Severino

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Marco Aurelio Severino (November, 1580 – July 12, 1656) was an Italian surgeon and anatomist.

Biography

Severino was born in Tarsia (Calabria, Italy), of Giovanni Jacopo Severino, a lawyer. He died of plague in 1656 in Naples.

Adept of the atomist views of Democritus, he disregarded Aristotle. He met Tommaso Campanella and corresponded with William Harvey and Thomas Bartholin. He was familiar of the works of scientists of the antiquity like Galen and Lactantius.

He also was the author of a book called The philosophy of chess (La filosofia degli scacchi).

Controversy

Besides his brilliant career as a surgeon and professor, his works present an ambiguous aspect. He includes mystic speculations, and his work attempts to coincide with his religious beliefs.

Selected works

De recondita abscessuum natura, O. Beltrani, Naples, 1632
- De recondita abscessuum natura libri VIII, p. PP5, at Google Books. Frankfurt, 1643
Zootomia democritaea, id est anatome generalis totius animantium opificii : libris quinque distincta, quorum seriem sequens facies delineabit. Nuremberg, 1645, in-40, 455 p.
De efficaci medicina libri tres, p. PR3-IA3, at Google Books, Frankfurt, 1646
De viperae natura, veneno, medicina demonstrationes et experimenta nova, P. Frambotti, Padua, 1650
Trimembris chirurgia, Schönwetter, Frankfort, 1653
Therapeuta neapolitanus, p. PP13, at Google Books, Naples, 1653 (With a commentary by Thomas Bartholin)
Quaestiones anatomicae quatuor, Frankfort, 1654
Antiperipatias. Hoc est adversus Aristoteleos de respiratione piscium diatriba. De piscibus in sicco viventibus commentarius... Phoca illustratus..., 2 vol., Naples, H. C. Cavalli, 1655–1659 (Includes a short biography)
Synopseos chirurgiae libri sex, E. Weyerstroten, Amsterdam, 1664

Lists of works

Severino gave us a list of his printed works and manuscripts, which is made up of nine parts and extends on four pages. It can be found in a 1653 edition Therapeuta Neapolitanus : Nomenclator meletematum et diatribarum Severini, p. PP29, at Google Books.

This list can also be consulted on http://gso.gbv.de/

External links

Biography, on the Galileo Project website
Biography and bibliography (in French), on the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Médecine website

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 34571426 LCCN: n86862912 ISNI: 0000 0001 0886 8021 GND: 11747486X BNF: cb12546619n

Persondata
Name	Severino, Marco Aurelio
Alternative names
Short description	Italian scientist
Date of birth	1580
Place of birth
Date of death	July 12, 1656
Place of death

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