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NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory

Monday 29 September 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Muratori, Ludovico

On the power of human imagination, 1783

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Venice, Giovanni Gatti, 1783. 8vo. A copy with burls, woodcut decorations, light foxing, 20th-century half-parchment binding with corners and marbled paper, author and title in gilt on the spine with four raised bands.

Specialist Notes

Seventh edition of one of Muratori's most authoritative philosophical works. The treatise explores the differences between intellect and imagination, focusing on memory, dreams, somnambulism, madness, delirium, ecstasies and visions, magic, and even fetal spots attributed to the mother's imagination. The author describes a case of schizophrenia for the first time.

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