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