Article ID: CBB203595316

The Theologian's Endgame. On the Recently Discovered Censorial Report on Galileo's Dialogue and Related Documents (2020)

unapi

After a century and a half of research and numerous excellent studies dedicated to Galileo’s trial, there are still many unanswered questions about this key episode in the birth of modern science and the history of free thought. Now a dossier found among the collections of the State Archive of Rome (ASR) allows us to shed new light upon one of the crucial moments in the events of 1633 – the censorial analysis of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems – as well as on the negotiations carried out by the House of Medici a few years after the scientist’s death in the attempt to obtain a new imprimatur for his prohibited work. In this paper, an annotated bilingual edition of these new documents will be presented, preceded by a brief introduction aimed at historically contextualising them and providing some hypotheses regarding their authorship and objectives. Particular attention will be focused on the first document in the dossier, a hitherto unknown censorial report ascribable to Pope Urban VIII’s personal theologian, Agostino Oreggi. More comprehensive results will be disclosed after further archival research.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB203595316/

Similar Citations

Article Peter Andersen; (2014)
De la devise de Bruno à la mort de Tycho Brahe (/isis/citation/CBB757868142/)

Article Massimo Bucciantini; (2004)
Reazioni alla condanna di Copernico: nuovi documenti e nuove ipotesi di ricerca (/isis/citation/CBB100264961/)

Essay Review Franco Giudice; (2007)
Only a Matter of Credit? Galileo, the Telescopic Discoveries, and the Copernican System (/isis/citation/CBB386449739/)

Article Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle; (2018)
Galileo and the Case of Psalm 19 (/isis/citation/CBB117312428/)

Book Maurizio Torrini; (2021)
Galileo nel Tempo (/isis/citation/CBB428854625/)

Article Lucia Bucciarelli; (2019)
Back to Battle: The Latin Edition of the Dialogue and of the Letter to Christina (1635-1636) (/isis/citation/CBB276203751/)

Article Francesco Beretta; (2003)
Une deuxième abjuration de Galilée ou l'inaltérable hiérarchie des disciplines (/isis/citation/CBB537954207/)

Article Pietro Redondi; (2004)
Fede lincea e teologia tridentina (/isis/citation/CBB841483681/)

Article Stéphane Garcia; (2003)
L'image de Galilée ou la trajectoire symbolique du portrait de 1635 (/isis/citation/CBB153088007/)

Article Stéphane Garcia; (2009)
Peiresc, Bernegger et Diodati: cinq lettres inédites en rapport avec Galilée (/isis/citation/CBB636080823/)

Essay Review Michele Camerota; (2004)
Campanella e la scienza galileiana. Intorno ad una recente edizione della Apologia pro Galileo (/isis/citation/CBB666471463/)

Article Mario Otto Helbing; (2009)
Le Note di logica del Ms. Gal. 27: alcune osservazioni sull'edizione Edwards-Wallace (/isis/citation/CBB071115224/)

Book Hofstadter, Dan; (2009)
The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition (/isis/citation/CBB001033189/)

Article Francesco Beretta; (2004)
Rilettura di un documento celebre : redazione e diffusione della sentenza e abiura di Galileo (/isis/citation/CBB681577128/)

Book Natacha Fabbri; Federica Favino; (2018)
Copernicus Banned: The Entangled Matter of the anti-Copernican Decree of 1616 (/isis/citation/CBB869881150/)

Essay Review Franco Motta; (2006)
Galileo e il libro dei giudici. L' "affaire" come mito culturale (/isis/citation/CBB388471510/)

Authors & Contributors
Garcia, Stéphane
Beretta, Francesco
Bucciarelli, Lucia
Andersen, Peter
Protasi, Chiara
Ago, Renata
Concepts
Science and religion
Copernicanism
Censorship
Inquisitions
Astronomy
Cosmology
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
Italy
Europe
France
Denmark
Institutions
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment