"Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots" by Vincenzo Figliucci - Advancing Galileo's Discoveries in Early Modern Italy

This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci s Stanze sopra le stelle e macchie solari scoperte col nuovo occhiale (1615), a captivating poetic response to Galileo s astronomical discoveries. Written by a Jesuit mathematician and moral theologian, this overlooked work reveals how vernacular poetry could illuminate, mediate, and circulate new scientific knowledge in early modern Italy, and how science, in turn, could reshape poetic language, themes, and forms as it sought expression beyond the boundaries of learned discourse. Weaving together inherited cosmological and philosophical frameworks into the cultural, religious, and linguistic debates of its time, Figliucci s poem uncovers a compelling and little-explored chapter in the intellectual history of the Scientific Revolution.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Figliucci Galileo and the Poetics of Knowledge.- Chapter 2: The Stanze sopra le stelle e macchie solari scoperte col nuovo occhiale 1615.

Product details

• Authors: Beatrice Fazio
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.05.2026
• EAN: 9783032158871
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3215887-1
• Illustrations: Approx. 110 p. 5 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Physik, Europa, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Galileo, astronomy, Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Theology, History of Science, Posthumanism, Italian Literature, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Translation Studies, History of Physics and Astronomy, Language Translation, Literature, Science and Medicine Studies, Literature and Religion, Renaissance Poetics, Jesuit Culture