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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messbarger, Rebecca, author.

Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020, author.

Johns, Christopher M. S., author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758.

Benedict.

Enlightenment--Italy.

Enlightenment.

Italy.

Italy--Intellectual life--1559-1789.

Intellectual life.

Popes--Biography.

Popes.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 505 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Contents:

Part I Benedict XIV, Women, and Progressive Catholicism

1 Benedict's Patronage of Learned Women / Marta Cavazza Cavazza, Marta 17

2 The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude / Paula Findlen Findlen, Paula 40

3 Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform / Stephanie Kirk Kirk, Stephanie 74

Part II Faith and Medicine in the Catholic Enlightenment

4 The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict's Vision of the Enlightenment Church / Rebecca Messbarger Messbarger, Rebecca 93

5 The Devil's Advocate among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources / Gianna Pomata Pomata, Gianna 120

6 Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini's De servorum Dei / Fernando Vidal Vidal, Fernando 151

Part III Benedict's Response to Challenges to Church Authority

7 Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences / John L. Heilbron Heilbron, John L. 177

8 Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness? / Maurice A. Finocchiaro Finocchiaro, Maurice A. 206

9 Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office / Maria Pia Donato Donato, Maria Pia 227

Part IV Theology, Tradition, and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism

10 Lambertini's Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy / Maria Teresa Fattori Fattori, Maria Teresa 255

11 Benedict XIV and the Holiness of the Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Roberto Rusconi Rusconi, Roberto 276

12 Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV's Delia S. Messa / Peter Björn Kerber Kerber, Peter Björn 297

Part V Benedict XIV's Transformation of the Public Sphere

13 Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694-1708) / Paola Giuli Giuli, Paola 315

14 Benedict XIV's Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum / Carole Paul Paul, Carole 341

15 Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV's Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens / Christopher M.S. Johns Johns, Christopher M.S. 367

Part VI Art and Architecture across Italy and the World

16 Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV's Gipsoteca at Bologna's Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti / Jeffrey Collins Collins, Jeffrey 391

17 Ethnicity, Empire, and "Europe": Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV / Kristina Kleutchen Kleutchen, Kristina 419

18 Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV / Tommaso Manfredi Manfredi, Tommaso 439.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1442637188

9781442637184

OCLC:

920015740

Publisher Number:

99966577764