Warburg Institute Colloquia 15

CONFLICTING DUTIES: SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND
RELIGION IN ROME, 1550 – 1750

Edited by Maria Pia Donato and Jill Kraye

Traditionally thought of as the home of the Counter-Reformation papacy and of the Inquisition, Rome has never been regarded as a major scientific centre. Yet the new research presented here, much of it based on previously unstudied archival material, highlights the special character of science and medicine in the city and its institutions: academies (above all, the famous Accademia dei Lincei), hospitals, libraries, monasteries, universities and courts, as well as the papal Curia and the Congregation of the Index. The approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, ranging over many disciplines – engineering, architecture, chemistry, botany, mathematics, astronomy and geography – and covering a diversity of topics, from atlases and anatomical illustration to sudden death and autopsies, from authorship  and censorship to patronage and the Republic of Letters.

CONTENTS

Maria Pia Donato
Introduction

Pamela O. Long
Engineering, Patronage and the Authorship of Practice in Early Counter-Reformation Rome

Jean-Marc Besse       
The Birth of the Modern Atlas: Rome, Lafreri, Ortelius

Laurent Pinon            
Portrait emblématique du parfait mécène:  comment Ulisse Aldrovandi remercie le cardinal Montalto

Pascal Dubourg Glatigny
Bernin disputé: science, art et architecture dans la Rome de 1680

Sabina Brevaglieri
Science, Books and Censorship in the Academy of the Lincei.  Johannes Faber as Cultural Mediator

Federica Favino         
‘Marvellous Conjuncture’?  The Academy of Maurice of Savoy in Rome between Politics and the ‘New Science’

Antonella Romano    
Mathematics and Philosophy at Trinità dei Monti: Emmanuel Maignan and his Legacy  between Rome and France

Stefania Montacutelli
Da Galileo a Borelli e oltre:  la filosofia naturale delle Scuole Pie a Roma nel Seicento

Paula Findlen
Living in the Shadow of Galileo:  Antonio Baldigiani (1647-1711), a Jesuit Scientist in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome

Elisa Andretta 
Anatomie du Vénérable dans la Rome de la Contre-Réforme.  Les autopsies d’Ignace de  Loyola et de Philippe Neri

Antonio Clericuzio
Chemical Medicines in Rome: Pietro Castelli and the Vitriol Debate (1616-1626)

Maria Conforti
The Biblioteca Lancisiana and the 1714 Edtion of Eustachi’s Anatomical Plates, or Ancients and Moderns Reconciled

Maria Pia Donato
The Mechanical Medicine of a Pious Man of Science: G. M. Lancisi’s De subitaneis mortibus (1707)

Lucia Dacome
The Anatomy of the Pope
                                   
Index

404 pp     14 black & white illustrations        2009              Price: £50.00           
ISBN 978 0 85481 149 6          ISSN 1352-9986
 
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