Luigi Pericle, a Swiss Homo universalis rediscovered

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He was a visionary and an expert in esoteric things: Luigi Pericle left behind a huge work. The spectacular find in Ascona marks the beginning of a new chapter in recent Swiss art history.

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The most famous between the Homo Universalis are :

A

• Leon Battista Alberti
• Aristotele
• Isaac Asimov
• Averroè
• Avicenna

B

• Francesco Bacone
• William Blake
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Tito Livio Burattini

C

• Cartesio
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Niccolò Copernico
• Nicola Cusano

D

• Erasmus Darwin
• John Dee
• Giovanni Battista Della Porta
• Democrito
• Denis Diderot

E

• Umberto Eco
• Thomas Edison
• Albert Einstein
• Empedocle
• Erasmo da Rotterdam
• Eulero

F

• Benjamin Franklin

G

• Galileo Galilei
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

H

• Stephen Hawking
• Victor Hugo
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Aldous Huxley
• Thomas Jefferson

K

• Immanuel Kant
• Giovanni Keplero

L

• Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
• Leonardo da Vinci

M

• Karl Marx
• Dmitrij Ivanovič Mendeleev

N

• Isaac Newton

P

• Paracelso
• Blaise Pascal
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• Papa Pio II
• Pitagora
• Henri Poincaré

R

• Antonio Rosmini
• Bertrand Russell

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