Marco Aurelio Severino
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Severino was born in Tarsia (Calabria, Italy), of Giovanni Jacopo Severino, a lawyer. He died in a 1656 epidemic of plague in Naples.
Adept of the atomist views of Democritus, he disregarded Aristotle. He met Tommaso Campanella and corresponded with William Harvey and Thomas Bartholin. He was familiar of the works of scientists of the antiquity like Galen and Lactantius.
He also was the author of a book called The philosophy of chess (La filosofia degli scacchi).
