# An attempt to physical science basis of climate changes in early Seventeenth century and the influence the Little Ice Age in south Italy

## TL;DR

This paper explores early 17th-century Italian scientific writings to understand historical climate variations and the influence of the Little Ice Age in southern Italy, highlighting early attempts at climate interpretation based on physical science principles.

## Contribution

It presents evidence that a 1615 Italian treatise by Foscarini was an early systematic effort to interpret climate changes through physical environmental effects and solar relationships.

## Key findings

- Early 17th-century Italian text discusses climate change concepts.
- Evidence of initial scientific interpretation of climate variability.
- Links between historical climate events and the Little Ice Age.

## Abstract

In 1615 Paolo A. Foscarini, a Carmelite monk lived in a monastery of south Italy near Cosenza (Calabria), published a Trattato which, at variance to what was common at the time, has not been written in Latin, but in volgare, the ancient Italian language. We are currently investigating the Trattato, and we found strong evidences that, hidden in the Italian language of early seventeenth century, it represents, to our knowledge, the first systematic attempt to interpret something unknown at that time, as meteo-climate changes and their forecasting, in the scientific framework of environmental physical effects related to Sun-Atmosphere relationships.