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Paolo Mattia Doria

Italian scientist

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Italian Enlightenment

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    In Italy: Political thought and early attempts at reform

    Paolo Mattia Doria (1662?–1746) and the Medinaceli Academy in Naples also employed historical inquiry to seek remedies for society’s ills. Doria revived the idea of a Platonic republicanism of philosophic magistrates, in which an anti-Enlightenment Catholicism would become a kind of civil religion. In Naples…

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