page_title: Marco Aurelio Severino
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Marco Aurelio Severino / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: La filosofia overo il perche degli scacchi per cui chiaramente si mostra prima l'artificio della fabrica universale, poscia la ragion particolare della ordinanza, &amp; degli andamenti tutti degli scacchi: trattato non tanto per lo gradevole scherzo, quanto per la riposta contezza delle cose pregiato di M. Aurelio Severino da Tarsia su' Crathi, Medico, &amp; Filosofo Napoletano. Dedicato all'illustrissimo signore D. Benedetto Caracciolo, Signor di Pannarano negl'Hirpini
context_page_description: Marco Aurelio Severino was an Italian surgeon and anatomist.
context_section_description: 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).
caption: La filosofia overo il perche degli scacchi, 1690
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