Etruscan Dreams: Athanasius Kircher, Medici Patronage, and Tuscan Friendships 1633-1680

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699710" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699710</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699710" target="_blank" >10.1086/699710</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Etruscan Dreams: Athanasius Kircher, Medici Patronage, and Tuscan Friendships 1633-1680

Original language description

This essay explores the relationships of the renowned German Jesuit polymath, Athanasius Kircher (1602-80), who resided in Rome, with Tuscan scholars and the Medici court in the age of Galileo. This research started as a digital humanities project. By using the network analysis tool Palladio, we discovered patterns within the high volume of correspondence that Kircher received from Tuscany over the course of his fifty-year career in Rome. A deeper exploration of archival and other documents reveals that Kircher engaged in a series of productive relationships with the Tuscans who were grappling with the legacy of Galileo. Kircher desired Medici patronage, although faced difficulties as a foreign resident and client of popes. Amid complicated papal-Tuscan relations, a close-knit community of scholars in Tuscany helped him. These relationships culminated in Kircher’s attempt to write a book about ancient Etruria and modern Tuscany. Kircher ultimately failed to publish his manuscript, which has since vanished. At the end of an extremely fruitful publishing career, this failure to publish attests to contrasting visions and priorities regarding the significance of the Tuscan past, an unfinished Renaissance that was not resolved until the eighteenth century emergence of Etruscology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

I Tatti Studies: studies in the Renaissance

ISSN

0393-5949

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

51

Pages from-to

299-349

UT code for WoS article

000452786200005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058530892