Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment : Art, Science, and Spirituality /

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Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740-58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of th...

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Otros Autores: Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020 (Editor ), Johns, Christopher M. S. (Editor ), Messbarger, Rebecca Marie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Benedict > XIV, > Pope, > 1675-1758.
Popes.
Intellectual life.
Enlightenment.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
HISTORY > General.
Papes > Biographies.
Siecle des Lumieres > Italie.
Popes > Biography.
Enlightenment > Italy.
Italy.
Italie > Vie intellectuelle > 1559-1789.
Italy > Intellectual life > 1559-1789.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Interpreting a papacy, revising an age / Rebecca Messbarger
  • Introduction: The scholars' pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment / Christopher M.S. Johns
  • Benedict's patronage of learned women / Marta Cavazza
  • The pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the problem of longitude / Paula Findlen
  • Benedict XIV and new world convent reform / Stephanie Kirk
  • The art and science of human anatomy in Benedict's vision of the Enlightenment church / Rebecca Messbarger
  • The devil's advocate among the physicians: what Prospero Lambertini learned from medical sources / Gianna Pomata
  • Modernizing the miraculous body in Prospero Lambertini's De servorum Dei / Fernando Vidal
  • Benedict XIV and the natural sciences / John L. Heilbron
  • Benedict XIV and the Galileo affair: liberalization or carelessness? / Maurice A. Finocchiaro
  • Reorder and restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office / Maria Pia Donato
  • Lambertini's treatises and the cultural project of Benedict XIV: two sides of the same policy / Maria Teresa Fattori
  • Benedict XIV and the holiness of the popes in the first half of the eighteenth century / Roberto Rusconi
  • Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV's Della S. Messa / Peter Björn Kerber
  • Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694-1708) / Paola Giuli
  • Benedict XIV's enlightened patronage of the Capitoline Museum / Carole Paul
  • Papal diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV's Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens / Christopher M.S. Johns
  • Pedagogy in plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV's Gipsoteca at Bologna's Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti / Jeffrey Collins
  • Ethnicity, empire, and "Europe": Jesuit art in China during the papacy of Benedict XIV / Kristina Kleutghen
  • Academic practice and Roman architecture during the reign of Benedict XIV / Tommaso Manfredi.

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