Rotten Corpses, A Disembowelled Woman, A Flayed Man. Images of the Body from the End of the 17^th to the Beginning of the 19^th Century. Florentine Wax Models in the First-hand Accounts of Visitors

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia received a degree in philosophy (1995) and Ph. D. in history of science (2001). He studied in Italy, France, Germany, United States and Russia. At present he is researcher and teaches history of science and media economics at the Universities of Bari and Foggia (Italy). His research concerns: 1) mathematics and philosophy in the seventeenth century; 2) medicine and theology in the eighteenth century; 3) Science communication. Among his publications are four books: Reazioni romane. L'idraulica galileiana negli scritti di Giovanni Bardi e Giuseppe Biancani (Bari, 1997); De natantibus. Una disputa ai confini tra filosofia e matematica nella toscana medicea (1611–1615) (Bari, 1999); Introduzione alla fisiologia di Georg Ernst Stahl (Lecce, 2000); Scienziati e scienza di Puglia (Bari 2007).