Aristotelian Cometary Theory in Italian: Effects of Comets from the Mid-Sixteenth Century to Galileo Galilei

2019 ◽  
pp. 343-360
Author(s):  
Matteo Cosci
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Galileo Galilei

Libertas’ philosophandi, or the Liberty of Thought

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Gatti
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Freedom Of Thought

This chapter discusses the freedom of thought and speech as it relates to the political, artistic, cultural, and scientific realms. The question of liberty here is raised as ideas of a new institution began to form during the sixteenth century: the parliaments, or general councils, which were inherited from both the classical and medieval worlds. Next, the chapter explores the tensions between author and authority through the figure of William Shakespeare, here considered not so much for his remarkable poetic and dramatic achievement as in his relationships with other figures of his time who were deeply involved in a discourse on liberty and the toleration of new and unorthodox forms of thought. Finally, the chapter considers ideas of liberty as they are applied to the scientific thought of Francis Bacon and Galileo Galilei.

An Italian Architect in London: The Case of Alessandro Galilei (1691–1737)

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Kieven
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
City Government ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Town Council ◽  
The Family ◽  
Financial Decline ◽  
Important Position ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

‘I will carry with me the best architect in Europe.’ With these bold words Robert, first Viscount Molesworth, announced to his wife his arrival in Ireland in the company of the young Italian architect and engineer Alessandro Galilei in May 1717. Lord Molesworth could not know that, twenty years later, Galilei would be indeed one of the best-known architects in Europe, after having built in Rome, to the order of Pope Clement XII Corsini (1730–40), the facade of San Giovanni in Laterano (St John Lateran), the Cappella Corsini in the same church and the facade of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini.Galilei was born on 25 August 1691, in Florence, the eldest son of the notary Giuseppe Maria Galilei and his wife Margherita Merlini. The Galilei family could trace their lineage to the Buonaiuti, who in the fourteenth century twice held the post of ‘Gonfaloniere della Giustizia’, then the most important position in the city government. They took the surname Galilei from the last Gonfaloniere in their family, the master of philosophy and medicine, Galileo (early fifteenth century). Even into the sixteenth century, members of the family belonged to the town council. The most famous bearer of the name was without doubt Galileo Galilei (1564–1641), from whom Alessandro was not directly descended but to whom he was remotely related. Although Alessandro’s father, Giuseppe, who in 1707 and 1711 was Proconsul of Notaries, counted himself as one of the nobili, the standing of the old patrician families had been considerably reduced under the Medici Grand Dukes because they did not actually hold a landed title. Financial decline seems also to have damaged the prestige of Alessandro’s branch of the family.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

Galileo Galilei

1893 ◽  
Vol 35 (908supp) ◽  
pp. 14503-14504
Keyword(s):  
Galileo Galilei

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Donald Beecher
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Social Negotiations ◽  
Renaissance Artist ◽  
The Way

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his community. The article deals with the complex relationship between the court and the Jewish "università" concerning the drama and the way in which dramatic performances also became part of the political, judicial and social negotiations between the two parties, as well as a study of Leone's role as playwright and negotiator during a period that was arguably one of the best of times for the Jews of Mantua.

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