Paolo Filippo Galli

The aim of this essay is to point out the fact that the contribution of Campanella in founding Aesthetics as science of sensible knowledge, was so important that he should be considered the father of this science, instead of Baumgarten or Vico. Campanella was the first to see the connection between sensible knowledge as infare (interaction between the mankind and the world) and language as its expression, whose ground is the imagination, as a faculty both of the sense and the mind...

The aim of this essay is to point out the importance of a recently rediscovered Gaetano Previati’s painting: Angels. It was painted in 1882 and it is the first version of a subject afterwards repeted in 1892, 1895, 1914. It represents the funeral of a girl, but, as the title itself suggests, the protagonists of the painting are the young women dressed in white, who take up the middle and the right side of the canvas...