Benedict XIV and the enlightenment : art, science, and spirituality /
edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M.S. Johns, and Philip Gavitt.
- 1 online resource (xxx, 505 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Toronto Italian Studies .
- Toronto Italian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interpreting a papacy, revising an age / The scholars' pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment / Benedict's patronage of learned women / The pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the problem of longitude / Benedict XIV and new world convent reform / The art and science of human anatomy in Benedict's vision of the Enlightenment church / The devil's advocate among the physicians: what Prospero Lambertini learned from medical sources / Modernizing the miraculous body in Prospero Lambertini's De servorum Dei / Benedict XIV and the natural sciences / Benedict XIV and the Galileo affair: liberalization or carelessness? / Reorder and restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office / Lambertini's treatises and the cultural project of Benedict XIV: two sides of the same policy / Benedict XIV and the holiness of the popes in the first half of the eighteenth century / Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV's Della S. Messa / Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694-1708) / Benedict XIV's enlightened patronage of the Capitoline Museum / Papal diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV's Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens / Pedagogy in plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV's Gipsoteca at Bologna's Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti / Ethnicity, empire, and "Europe": Jesuit art in China during the papacy of Benedict XIV / Academic practice and Roman architecture during the reign of Benedict XIV / Rebecca Messbarger -- Christopher M.S. Johns -- Marta Cavazza -- Paula Findlen -- Stephanie Kirk -- Rebecca Messbarger -- Gianna Pomata -- Fernando Vidal -- John L. Heilbron -- Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Maria Pia Donato -- Maria Teresa Fattori -- Roberto Rusconi -- Peter Björn Kerber -- Paola Giuli -- Carole Paul -- Christopher M.S. Johns -- Jeffrey Collins -- Kristina Kleutghen -- Tommaso Manfredi. Preface: Introduction: