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

Contributor(s): Series: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 505 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442624757
  • 1442624752
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Benedict XIV and the EnlightenmentDDC classification:
  • 282.092 23
LOC classification:
  • BX1378.6 .B46 2016eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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