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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.
Erculiani, Camilla. 2018, forthcoming. Letters on natural philosophy. Edited with introduction and notes by Eleonora Carinci. Translated by Hannah Marcus. Forwarded by Paula Findlen. Toronto: Iter Press and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Herculiana, Camilla. 1584. Lettere di philosophia naturale di Camilla Herculiana, speciala alle tre stelle in Padua. Krakow: Stamperia di Lazaro.
Primary Literature
Menochio, Jacopo. 1604. Consiliorum sive responsorum. Vol. VIII, 180–183. Frankfurt: Andreas Wéchel and Johann Gymnich.
Secondary Literature
Carinci, Eleonora. 2013. Una speziala padovana. Lettere di philosophia naturale di Camilla Erculiani (1584). Italian Studies 68: 202–229.
Marcon, Cristina. 2014. Camilla Gregeta Erculiani, “scienziata” padovana del Cinquecento. Padova e Il Suo Territorio 169: 37–43.
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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 Platonism in 16th-century Padua: Two unpublished letters from Sebastiano Erizzo to Camilla Erculiani.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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Carinci, E. (2018). Erculiani, Camilla. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1139-2
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