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Rebecca Messbarger - Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality - 9781442637184 - V9781442637184
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Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality

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Description for Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality Hardback. Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture. Editor(s): Messbarger, Rebecca; Johns, Christopher; Gavitt, Philip. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 560 pages, 23. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DST; HBJD; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442637184
SKU
V9781442637184
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About Rebecca Messbarger
Rebecca Messbarger is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Washington University in St. Louis. Christopher M.S. Johns is a professor in the Department of History of Art at Vanderbilt University. Philip Gavitt is a professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University.

Reviews for Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality
‘Accompanied by a wonderful set of colour plates, this book remarkably succeeds in its attempt to read the ambiguities and nuances of the "Catholic Enlightenment" through the figure of Benedict XIV. Historians of science will find an abundance of materials to work on the relationships between Catholicism and the science on a global scale in the early modern period.’
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