Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Preface: Interpreting a Papacy, Revising an Age

Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment

Part I. Benedict XIV, Women, and Progressive Catholicism

1. Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women

2. The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude

3. Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform

Part II. Faith and Medicine in the Catholic Enlightenment

4. The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s Vision of the Enlightenment Church

5. The Devil’s Advocate among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources

6. Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s De servorum Dei

Part III. Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority

7. Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences

8. Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness?

9. Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office

Part IV. Theology, Tradition, and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism

10. Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy

11. Benedict XIV and the Holiness of the Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

12. Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s Della S. Messa

Part V. Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere

13. Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694–1708)

14. Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum

15. Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens

Part VI. Art and Architecture across Italy and the World

16. Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti

17. Ethnicity, Empire, and “Europe”: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV

18. Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV

Index