Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment : : Art, Science, and Spirituality / / Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher Johns, Philip Gavitt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
• HerausgeberIn: Gavitt, Philip ,; Johns, Christopher ,
• Author: Johns, Christopher ,; Messbarger, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)

Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740-58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of the arts and sciences helped restore Italy's position as a center of intellectual and artistic innovation.Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a broad and nuanced assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. The collection's essays, written by international experts in the field, cover topics ranging from Benedict's revisions to the Church's procedures for beatification and sanctification to his patronage of women scientists and mathematicians at the university in Bologna, his birthplace.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Preface: Interpreting a Papacy, Revising an Age -- Introduction: The Scholars' Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment / Johns, Christopher M.S. -- Part I: Benedict XIV, Women, and Progressive Catholicism -- 1. Benedict's Patronage of Learned Women / Cavazza, Marta -- 2. The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude / Findlen, Paula -- 3. Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform / Kirk, Stephanie -- 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 / Messbarger, Rebecca -- 5. The Devil's Advocate among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources / Pomata, Gianna -- 6. Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini's De servorum Dei / Vidal, Fernando -- Part III: Benedict's Response to Challenges to Church Authority -- 7. Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences / Heilbron, John L. -- 8. Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness? / Finocchiaro, Maurice A. -- 9. Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office / Donato, Maria Pia -- 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 / Fattori, Maria Teresa -- 11. Benedict XIV and the Holiness of the Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Rusconi, Roberto -- 12. Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV's Della S. Messa / Kerber, Peter Björn -- Part V: Benedict XIV's Transformation of the Public Sphere -- 13. Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694-1708) / Giuli, Paola -- 14. Benedict XIV's Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum / Paul, Carole -- 15. Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV's Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens / Johns, Christopher M.S. -- 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 / Collins, Jeffrey -- 17. Ethnicity, Empire, and "Europe": Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV / Kleutghen, Kristina -- 18. Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV / Manfredi, Tommaso -- Index