Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008908037/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 28 of
28
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""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, the news of which 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12507482.
- catalog coverage "Europe Intellectual life 17th century.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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, the news of which 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Crime and Memory -- The Road to Vallombrosa -- Ad Astra Per Aspera -- The Astrologer's Books -- The Sun Pope -- The Widening Circle -- Heavenly Bodies -- Clean Teeth, Pure Souls -- The Harmony of the Universe -- Charting the Firmament -- The Science of the Stars -- The Business of Astrology -- De Re Publica -- Occult Politics -- The Last Prophecy -- the Vendetta -- The Body of the Accused.".
- catalog extent "xii, 238 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691048649 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Intellectual life 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog subject "133.5/0945/63209032 21".
- catalog subject "Astrologers Italy Biography.".
- catalog subject "Astrology History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "BF1679.8.M59 D66 2002".
- catalog subject "Morandi, Orazio, -1630.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Crime and Memory -- The Road to Vallombrosa -- Ad Astra Per Aspera -- The Astrologer's Books -- The Sun Pope -- The Widening Circle -- Heavenly Bodies -- Clean Teeth, Pure Souls -- The Harmony of the Universe -- Charting the Firmament -- The Science of the Stars -- The Business of Astrology -- De Re Publica -- Occult Politics -- The Last Prophecy -- the Vendetta -- The Body of the Accused.".
- catalog title "Morandi's last prophecy and the end of Renaissance politics / Brendan Dooley.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".