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Giannozzo Manetti

De terremotu

A cura di Daniela Pagliara

HB pp. XVIII-250, € 59,00

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2012
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978-88-8450-492-0
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The De terremotu by Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) is of considerable interest from both literary, humanistic-philosophical, and historical-scientific points of view. Manetti's writing finds its origins, in fact, in his first-hand experience and close examination of the catastrophic earthquake of December 1456, which struck the ingdom of Naples during the reign of Alfonso d'Aragona. This earthquake was one of most serious, historically documented seismic events to strike the Appennine region, causing the deaths of more than 30,000 people. The work is divided into three books: in the first, the theories developed by poets, historians, theologians, astrologers, and physicists on the nature and causes of earthquakes; in the second, a list of the major seismic events documented in Europe and the Mediterranean from prehistory to 1456; and finally, in the third book, a detailed recording of material damage and the numbers of deaths registered
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