Emotional Anatomy Treaty

Andrea Pennisi & Virginia Caldarella

An exhibition of the original illustration tables of the book Emotional Anatomy Treaty which was inspired by Leonardo's treatise on anatomy and the hippocratic humoral theory. This surreal "treatise", attributed to the phantom Melanio da Colìa, scholar of illnesses and emotional therapies, who lived in an imaginary age, illustrates and describes the typical ailments of the poet and the dreamer, of the pirate and the savage, and the poisons and antidotes animating and contaminating our "emotional anatomy".