Salvator RosaPainter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre eminent philosopher painter of his age. This new account traces Rosa's strategies of self promotion, and his creation of a new kind of audience for his art. The book describes the startling novelty of his subject matterwitchcraft and divination, as well as