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Erculiani, Camilla

Born: 1540s, Padua

Died: 1585?, Padua?

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Camilla Greghetti Erculiani was apothecary with her husband at the spezieria “Alle tre stelle” in Padua. Thanks to her connections with the Paduan network of scholars and students of medicine and philosophy, and with Polish scholars studying in Padua, in 1584 she published her Letters on Natural Philosophy, printed in Krakow. Shortly after the publication of her work, she was accused of heresy by the Paduan Inquisition for some of the ideas expressed in her book, which aimed to demonstrate the natural cause of the biblical Flood.

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Editions of Erculiani’s Work

  • Erculiani, Camilla. 2016. Lettere di filosofia naturale (1584). In Corrispondenze scientifiche tra Cinque e Seicento, ed. Eleonora Carinci and Sandra Plastina, 17–146. Lugano: Agorà & Co.

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  • Erculiani, Camilla. 2018, forthcoming. Letters on natural philosophy. Bilingual edition. Edited, with introduction and notes by Eleonora Carinci. Trans. Hannah X. Marcus. With an essay by Paula Findlen. Toronto: CRRS.

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  • Herculiana, Camilla. 1584. Lettere di philosophia naturale di Camilla Herculiana, speciala alle tre stelle in Padua. Krakow: Stamperia di Lazaro.

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Primary Literature

  • Menochio, Jacopo. 1604. Consiliorum sive responsorum. Vol. VIII, 180–183. Frankfurt: Andreas Wéchel and Johann Gymnich.

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Secondary Literature

  • Carinci, Eleonora. 2013. Una speziala padovana. Lettere di philosophia naturale di Camilla Erculiani (1584). Italian Studies 68: 202–229.

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  • Marcon, Cristina. 2014. Camilla Gregeta Erculiani, “scienziata” padovana del Cinquecento. Padova e Il Suo Territorio 169: 37–43.

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  • Plastina, Sandra. 2014. Considerar la mutatione dei tempi e delli stati e degli uomini: le Lettere di philosophia naturale di Camilla Erculiani. Bruniana & Campanelliana 20: 145–158.

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  • Ray, Meredith K. 2015. Daughters of alchemy: Women and scientific culture in early modern Italy, 114–136. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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  • Vanhaelen, Maude. 2016. Platonism in 16th-century Padua: Two unpublished letters from Sebastiano Erizzo to Camilla Erculiani. Bruniana & Campanelliana 1: 137–147.

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  1. Venice, Ca′ Foscari, Italy

    Eleonora Carinci

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    Marco Sgarbi

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    Marco Sgarbi

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Carinci, E. (2017). Erculiani, Camilla. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1139-1

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