Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (eBook)

Brendan Dooley (Autor)

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2021
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23114-3 (ISBN)

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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 arrest, trial, and death in prison, probably by assassination. Based on new evidence, this book chronicles Morandi's fabulous rise and fall against the backdrop of enormous political and cultural turmoil that characterized Italy in the early seventeenth century. It documents a world in which occult knowledge commanded power, reveals widespread libertinism behind monastery walls, and illuminates the arduous metamorphosis of intellectual culture already underway. It also sets the stage for, and lends new understanding to, the trial of Galileo that would follow shortly. The mystery of Morandi concerns the basic compulsion to advance in a status-drenched society and the very nature of knowledge at the birth of science. Told here in colorful detail, Morandi's story is fascinating in its own right. Beyond that, it allows us to glimpse the underside of early modern high society as never before.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones, 3 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Astrologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abenragel • Academies • Accademia degli Incogniti • Accademia dei Lincei • Accademia della Crusca • adultery • Akerman, Susanna • Albertus Magnus • Alchemy • Aldobrandini family • Allegory • ALL THINGS • Allusion • Ammirato, Scipione • Andreas Libavius • antipathy • Antipope • Antipope John XXIII • Aristotelianism • Ascendant • Astrology • Astronomy • Athanasius Kircher • Atheism • Avicenna • Barberini family • Bennington College • Bernardino Telesio • Bernini, Domenico • Bettolìi, Giambattista • Bianca Cappello • Biblioteca Angelica • bookcase • Brescia • cabala • Caetani • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Campori, G. • Caracciolo, Alberto • Career • Carlo de' Medici • Carlo de' Medici (cardinal) • Casaubon, Isaac • Cassiano dal Pozzo • catharsis • Cavallo family • Cerbu, Thomas • Cesare Ripa • Cherub • Christendom • Christopher Clavius • cleanliness • Clement VII (Pope) • Coat of Arms • Computus • Condottieri • Corsini, Cardinal • Courtier • credential • Curry, Patrick • De Feo, Italo • De Mas, Enrico • diction • Diodorus Siculus • dismemberment • Drake, Stillman • drying • ephemeris • Epictetus • Epistle to the Galatians • erudition • Eugenius IV (Pope) • Exaltation (astrology) • Farinacci, Prospero • Federico Cesi • fellow • Florentine Histories • Fragnito, Gigliola • Francesco Berni • Francesco Borromini • Francesco Mochi • Francis Bacon (artist) • friar • Gabrieli, Giuseppe • Galileo affair • Galileo Galilei • Geocentric model • Giambattista Della Porta • Giambattista Marino • Gian Lorenzo Bernini • Giorgio Vasari • Giovanni della Casa • Giovanni Gualberto (Saint) • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • Girolamo • Girolamo Aleandro • Girolamo Mercuriale • Girondo, Francesco • Giuliano Finelli • grand duke • Grand theory • Great conjunction • Great Schism • Gubbio • Guevara, Antonio de • Hagengruber, Ruth • Hammond, Frederick • Heinrich Khunrath • heliocentrism • Hellenic Cosmos • Hermes Trismegistus • Hodierna, Giambattista • Horoscope • Hubner, Wolfgang • imaginary manuscripts • Immunity from prosecution (international law) • Infertility • Inghirami, Francesco • Jaffe, Irma • James Hankins • Jannaco, Carmine • Jewish Mysticism • Johannes Kepler • Johannes Trithemius • Juan Luis Vives • judicial astrology • juventus • Key of Solomon • Kornmann, Heinrich • Kraus, Andreas • lamblichus • Lamponi, Ercole • Libavius, Andreas • Lipsius, Justus • Literature • Lodovico Dolce • Lorenzo Valla • Luca Gaurico • ludovico • Malaspina, Giambattista • Maleficent • Marsilio Ficino • Martyrology • Medici family • Midheaven • Mizaldus, Antonius • Monastery • monsignor • Nannini, Remigio • Natural magic • Natural Philosophy • necromancy • Neoplatonism • Niccolò Machiavelli • Nickname • Nomantia (Raimondi) • Occult • odor • Olaus Magnus • Orazio • Ottaviano de' Medici • Ottavio Leoni • Owen Gingerich • Palazzo Barberini • Paolo Sarpi • Papal brief • Papal States • Paracelsus • parricide • Patrician (ancient Rome) • petrarch • Petrarchan Sonnet • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physician • Poetry • Pope • Pope Clement VIII • Pope Julius II • Pope Sixtus V • Pope Urban VIII • predestination • Prediction • Prelate • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • Prutenic Tables • Quirinal Palace • Renaissance humanism • Restitution • result • Retinue • Roman Inquisition • Rudolph Goclenius • Ruler • Santa Prassede • Self-concealment • seriousness • Sesto Fiorentino • Superiority (short story) • Sympathetic Magic • Tetrabiblos • the monastery • theocracy • theory • The Philosopher • The Various • Thomas Aquinas • Thomas Erastus • Thought • tommaso campanella • torture chamber • treatise • Uffizi • Ulisse Aldrovandi • University of Pisa • Vatican Library • Vitriol • Wound • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23114-1 / 0691231141
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23114-3 / 9780691231143