Antonio Savaresi

When the ideals of the French Revolution sparked to the Italian peninsula, Savaresi – as other scientists such as Carlo Lauberg and Annibale Giordano – adhered to a clandestine network aiming at overthrowing the monarchy.

[2] This small town on the Ligurian coast had been occupied by the French armies and, being administered by the radical revolutionary Filippo Buonarroti, became a safe haven for Italian republicans.

During the Restauration, when the Bourbon dynasty came back to power, he tried to hide his revolutionary youth, pretending that in the 1790s he had left Naples in order to study medicine in Montpellier.

[5] Although Brown’s system was opposed to Hippocratic medicine and miasma theory, Savaresi combined them in order to make sense of the diseases he was trying to understand and to cure.

adopted medical topographies as an epistemic genre, writing detailed reports about the (supposed) links between environmental and pathological features of certain regions and developed ideas about hygienic measures to prevent the outbreak of diseases.

Nevertheless, Savaresi selectively appropriated therapeutic knowledge from Egyptian and Creole Caribbean medical actors in order to (try to) fight the plague, ophtalmia and yellow fever.