Italian Diluvianism and antidiluvianism within the international arena: the great debate that lasted more than six centuries

As early as the thirteenth century naturalists of the Italian panorama began to look for a possible explanation for fossils found on emerged land. From the beginning, they tended quite naturally to resort to a catastrophic phenomenon, which found a direct ‘confirmation’ in the Holy Scriptures: the Great Flood. As an element found in numerous peoples, from the Babylonians, to ancient Egypt and the Chinese culture, the Flood became for a long time...