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Morandi´s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics
Brendan (Edi Dooley
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Description for Morandi´s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics
Hardback. Chronicles Orazio Morandi's fabulous rise and fall against the backdrop of enormous political and cultural turmoil that characterized Italy in the early seventeenth century. This book documents a world in which occult knowledge commanded power and reveals widespread libertinism behind monastery walls. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 halftones, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; HBJD; HBLL; VXFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.
One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery. His most serious crime was to have predicted the death of Pope Urban VIII and allowed news of this to spread as far as Spain, where cardinals quickly embarked for Italy to attend a conclave that would not occur for fourteen years. The pope, furious at such astrological and political effrontery, personally ordered the criminal inquiry that led to Morandi's ... Read more
One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery. His most serious crime was to have predicted the death of Pope Urban VIII and allowed news of this to spread as far as Spain, where cardinals quickly embarked for Italy to attend a conclave that would not occur for fourteen years. The pope, furious at such astrological and political effrontery, personally ordered the criminal inquiry that led to Morandi's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691048642
SKU
V9780691048642
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About Brendan (Edi Dooley
Brendan Dooley taught history at Harvard University for many years. He is now Chief of Research at the Medici Archive Project. His books include Italy in the Baroque, The Social History of Skepticism, and Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy.
Reviews for Morandi´s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics
"An extremely engaging book, one that will reveal to the general public hitherto unknown and perhaps unsuspected aspects of Baroque Rome and the Baroque papacy."
Franco Mormando, America "Dooley brings to the task of recreating the Roman context of Morandi's readers a remarkable command of the sources and the intellectual currents of the period."
John M. Headley, American Historical Review "[A] well-researched ... Read more
Franco Mormando, America "Dooley brings to the task of recreating the Roman context of Morandi's readers a remarkable command of the sources and the intellectual currents of the period."
John M. Headley, American Historical Review "[A] well-researched ... Read more