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 chic...
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Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2002.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Crime and Memory
- The Road to Vallombrosa
- Ad Astra Per Aspera
- The Astrologer's Books
- The Sun Pope
- The Widening Circle
- Heavenly Bodies
- Clean Teeth, Pure Souls
- The Harmony of the Universe
- Charting the Firmament
- The Science of the Stars
- The Business of Astrology
- De Re Publica
- Occult Politics
- The Last Prophecy
- the Vendetta
- The Body of the Accused.