[1][2] Throughout his life, Liceti remained committed philosophically to an Aristotelian viewpoint, although some recent scholars, such as Giuseppe Ongaro, have suggested he was not a rigid dogmatist.
[1] The church was later demolished but his grave marker, inscribed with an epitaph composed by Liceti himself, was saved and is now housed in the city's Civic Museum.
His prodigious output once caused mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri to write to Galileo Galilei that Liceti "makes a book a week ('esso fa un libro in una settimana').
[1] In the 1645 work De pietate Aristotelis erga Deum et homines, he argues that Aristotle most likely achieved eternal salvation in the afterlife.
In 1602, he published De ortu animae humanae, which examines the way in which the three parts of the soul (vegetative, sensitive, and rational) come to be joined with the human fetus.
[1] Liceti's primary work in the field of generation, and his most famous, is De monstrorum caussis, natura et differentiis, originally published in Padua in 1616 then reprinted in 1634 with lavish illustrations.
[1] Liceti did, however, provide explanations for these abnormalities, including the narrowness of the uterus, problems with the placenta, and the adhesion of the amniotic fluid with the embryo.
[1] In 1630, he published a follow-up work (De anima subiecto corpori nil tribuente, deque seminis vita et efficientia primaria in constitutione foetus) which answered the objections of some of his critics.
[1] Liceti further discussed the relationship between the microcosm of the human body and the macrocosm of the universe in his 1635 work De mundi et hominis analogia.
[1] In his astronomical works, Liceti attempted to defend Aristotelian cosmology and geocentrism against the new ideas of heliocentrism proposed by Galileo and his followers.
[1] The seventh and eighth volume deals primarily with a theological controversy Liceti engaged in with Matija Ferkić (Matteo Ferchio).
[7] In 1777, Marquis Carlo Spinelli erected a marble statue of Liceti in Padua on Prato della Valle sculpted by Francesco Rizzi.