  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.
