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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M.S. Johns, and Philip Gavitt Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict’s engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Rebecca Messbarger Introduction by Christopher M. S. Johns Part I: Benedict XIV, Women and Progressive Catholicism 1. Marta Cavazza: Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women 2. Paula Findlen: The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude 3. Stephanie Kirk: Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform Part II: Faith and Medicine in Catholic Enlightenment 4. Rebecca Messbarger: The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s Vision of the Enlightenment Church 5. Gianna Pomata: The Devil’s Advocate Among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources 6. Fernando Vidal: Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s De Servorum Dei Part III: Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority 7. John L. Heilbron: Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences 8. Maurice Finocchiaro: Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness? 9. Maria Pia Donato: Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index and the Holy Office Part IV: Theology, Tradition and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism 10. Maria Teresa Fattori: Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy 11. Roberto Rusconi: Benedict XIV and the Holiness of Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 12. Peter Björn Kerber: Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s Della S. Messa Part V: Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere 13. Paola Giuli: Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694–1708) 14. Carole Paul: Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum 15. Christopher M. S. Johns: Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens Part VI: Art and Architecture Across Italy and the World 16. Jeffrey Collins: Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti 17. Kristina Kleutghen: The Art Ethnicity and Empire: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV 18. Tommaso Manfredi: Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV ...
