Robert Bellarmine the Censor and Early-Modern Humanism.
The article examines the writings of early-modern censor Italian Jesuit Robert Bellarmine and his role in the development of modern civil liberties. It details Bellarmine's involvement in the censuring of Italian physicist Galileo Galilei in 1616, and his depiction as a villain and an opponent of fr...
| Publicado en: | Renaissance Papers pp. 141 - 156 |
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Boydell & Brewer
2011
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| Sumario: | The article examines the writings of early-modern censor Italian Jesuit Robert Bellarmine and his role in the development of modern civil liberties. It details Bellarmine's involvement in the censuring of Italian physicist Galileo Galilei in 1616, and his depiction as a villain and an opponent of free thinking. A new understanding of Bellarmine emerged following the 1998 decision of then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedit XVI, to give scholars free access to the Vatican archives. |
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