id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7196 Italian philosophy - Wikipedia .html text/html 5765 645 56 Italy was also affected by the enlightenment, a movement which was a consequence of the Renaissance and changed the road of Italian philosophy.[8] Followers of the group often met to discuss in private salons and coffeehouses, notably in the cities of Milan, Rome and Venice. The church's power was significantly reduced, and it was a period of great thought and invention, with scientists such as Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani discovering new things and greatly contributing to Western science.[8] Cesare Beccaria was also one of the greatest Italian Enlightenment writers, who was famous for his masterpiece Of Crimes and Punishments (1764), which was later translated into 22 languages.[8] Italian philosophers were also influential in the development of the non-Marxist liberal socialism philosophy, including Carlo Rosselli, Norberto Bobbio, Piero Gobetti, Aldo Capitini, and Guido Calogero; Gianni Vattimo borders this tradition, defending a "weak Marxism", as part of his pensiero debole (weak thought) take on hermeneutics. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7196.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7196.txt