Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Contributors xvii
6. Preface: Interpreting a Papacy, Revising an Age xxvii
7. Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment 1
8. Part I: Benedict XIV, Women, and Progressive Catholicism
9. 1. Benedict’s Patronage of Learned Women 17
10. 2. The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude 40
11. 3. Benedict XIV and New World Convent Reform 74
12. Part II: Faith and Medicine in the Catholic Enlightenment
13. 4. The Art and Science of Human Anatomy in Benedict’s Vision of the Enlightenment Church 93
14. 5. The Devil’s Advocate among the Physicians: What Prospero Lambertini Learned from Medical Sources 120
15. 6. Modernizing the Miraculous Body in Prospero Lambertini’s De servorum Dei 151
16. Part III: Benedict’s Response to Challenges to Church Authority
17. 7. Benedict XIV and the Natural Sciences 177
18. 8. Benedict XIV and the Galileo Affair: Liberalization or Carelessness? 206
19. 9. Reorder and Restore: Benedict XIV, the Index, and the Holy Office 227
20. Part IV: Theology, Tradition, and Institutions in the Era of Enlightened Catholicism
21. 10. Lambertini’s Treatises and the Cultural Project of Benedict XIV: Two Sides of the Same Policy 255
22. 11. Benedict XIV and the Holiness of the Popes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 276
23. 12. Vicar of Christ and Alter Christus: Benedict XIV’s Della S. Messa 297
24. Part V: Benedict XIV’s Transformation of the Public Sphere
25. 13. Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1694–1708) 315
26. 14. Benedict XIV’s Enlightened Patronage of the Capitoline Museum 341
27. 15. Papal Diplomacy and the Catholic Enlightenment: Benedict XIV’s Caffeaus in the Quirinal Gardens 367
28. Part VI: Art and Architecture across Italy and the World
29. 16. Pedagogy in Plaster: Ercole Lelli and Benedict XIV’s Gipsoteca at Bologna’s Instituto delle Scienze e delle Arti 391
30. 17. Ethnicity, Empire, and “Europe”: Jesuit Art in China during the Papacy of Benedict XIV 419
31. 18. Academic Practice and Roman Architecture during the Reign of Benedict XIV 439
32. Index 467