Ottavio Scarlattini

Ottavio Scarlattini was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and theologian who lived from 1623 to 1699. He became a Canon Regular of the Lateran at Bologna in 1639 and was then appointed Archpriest of Villa Fontana in Medicina. His 1679 work Dell'Epicuro contro gli epicurei was an 830 page treatise arguing for the beatification of Epicurus and defending Epicureanism as a philosophy, and when translated into Latin became well known across Europe. His 1683 L'huomo, e sue parti figurato, e simbolico was a discourse on the symbolism of the parts of the human body, giving each an anatomical, rational, moral, mystic, political and legal analysis. In 1690 he published Analoghe proportioni sopra il non anche risoluto problema d'Euclide per la quadratura del circolo, at Bologna.