Emanuele Tesauro
Emanuele Tesauro | |
|---|---|
Portrait of Emanuele Tesauro by Charles Dauphin (1670) | |
| Born | January 28, 1592 |
| Died | February 26, 1675 (aged 83) Turin, Duchy of Savoy |
| Occupations |
|
| Education | |
| Education | Jesuit Brera College (Milan) Collegium Maximum (Naples) (D.D., 1628) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 17th-century philosophy |
| Region | |
| School | |
| Notable students | Francesco Fulvio Frugoni |
| Main interests | Aesthetics, poetics, historiography, literary theory, ethics, poetry, rhetoric |
| Notable works |
|
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Ordained | October 1627 |
Emanuele Tesauro COSML (Italian: [emanuˈɛːle teˈzauro]; 28 January 1592 – 26 February 1675) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, literary theorist, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian.
Tesauro is remembered chiefly for his seminal work Il cannocchiale aristotelico (The Aristotelian Telescope), the first and most important treatise on metaphor and conceit written in early modern Europe. Tesauro's Cannocchiale aristotelico has been called "one of the most important statements of poetics in seventeenth-century Europe", and "a milestone in the history of aesthetics". In Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before, Tesauro's theories are self-consciously taken up, through the character Padre Emanuele and his metaphor-machine.