Grice e Marta

 

The Italian philosopher whose surname is Marta and who disputed with Telesio is 

Giacomo Antonio Marta. He was an Aristotelian who wrote a book attacking the principles of Bernardino Telesio's new philosophy of nature. 

Tommaso Campanella, a student and fervent defender of Telesio's ideas, responded to Marta's work with his own treatise, Philosophia sensibus demonstrata(Philosophy as Demonstrated by the Senses), published in Naples in 1591. Campanella's work was explicitly written to defend Telesio's philosophy against the attacks of Marta. 

Beyond his role as an opponent of Telesio's natural philosophy, little else is widely known or easily accessible about Giacomo Antonio Marta. His primary historical significance in philosophical history stems from this particular dispute, which served as the impetus for one of the most important works by the influential Renaissance philosopher Tommaso Campanella.