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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

I Tatti Studies: studies in the Renaissance

ISSN

0393-5949

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

21

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

51

Strana od-do

299-349

Kód UT WoS článku

000452786200005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85058530892