Research Catalog

Title

Benedict XIV and the enlightenment : art, science, and spirituality / edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M.S. Johns, and Philip Gavitt.

Publication

• Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Messbarger, Rebecca Marie
• Johns, Christopher M. S.
• Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020

Description

xxx, 505 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Series Statement

Toronto Italian studies

Uniform Title

Toronto Italian studies.

Subjects

• Italy > Intellectual life > 1559-1789
• Enlightenment > Italy
• Popes > Biography
• Benedict > XIV, > Pope, > 1675-1758

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-3790

ISBN

• 9781442637184
• 1442637188

OCLC

920015740

Title

Benedict XIV and the enlightenment : art, science, and spirituality / edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M.S. Johns, and Philip Gavitt.

Publisher

Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Toronto Italian studies

Toronto Italian studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Messbarger, Rebecca Marie, editor.

Johns, Christopher M. S., editor.

Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3790