Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics /
One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery. H...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PROLOGUE
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE CRIME AND MEMORY
- TWO THE ROAD TO VALLOMBROSA
- THREE AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
- FOUR THE ASTROLOGER'S BOOKS
- FIVE THE SUN POPE
- SIX THE WIDENING CIRCLE
- SEVEN HEAVENLY BODIES
- EIGHT CLEAN TEETH, PURE SOULS
- NINE THE HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE
- TEN CHARTING THE FIRMAMENT
- ELEVEN THE SCIENCE OF THE STARS
- TWELVE THE BUSINESS OF ASTROLOGY
- THIRTEEN DE RE PUBLICA
- FOURTEEN OCCULT POLITICS
- FIFTEEN THE LAST PROPHECY
- SIXTEEN THE VENDETTA
- SEVENTEEN THE BODY OF THE ACCUSED
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX