Main entry:

Redondi, Pietro, author.

Title & Author:

Galileo heretic = Galileo eretico / by Pietro Redondi ; translated by Raymond Rosenthal.

Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]

Description:

x, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Galileo eretico.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : The inquisitor’s gaze ; Questions and proposals -- Substitution of theory : The matter of light ; “The smallest quanta” and “non-quantum atoms” ; Hypotheses non fingo? -- Comets: presage of misfortune : A brilliant success, a dark remorse ; Operation Sarsi ; Signs of the times ; The new grammar of physics ; Atomistic intuitions ; The “characters” of the universe ; Bad characters -- The “marvelous conjuncture” : Carnival rites ; The libraries of the new philosophers ; Federico Cesi’s encyclopedia ; Virginio Cesarini’s Lucretian poem ; Giovanni Ciampoli’s library ; Hurried academic steps and false diplomatic steps -- Dark lights : Judicial rites ; Two abjurations, three condemnations ; Tests of pride ; Tridentine perspectives ; Courses and recourses -- The holy office’s secrecy : Sycophants and informers ; Opaque information ; The “secret of the holy office” ; Manuscript, anonymous, updated ; Trial records on file ; “G3” ; Exegetical cunning ; Imbroglio ; Father Giovanni di Guevara -- Identification of an anonymous person : A missed vocation ; Father Orazio Grassi, Jesuit ; Spy games ; Signals of alarm ; Official accusations ; Instinctive defenses ; Academic defenses -- The dispute over the eucharist : Light and heat ; Instrument of faith ; Words and problems ; From Chartres to Trent ; After Trent -- Theater of shadows : Catastrophe ; A “Pythagorean and Democritan” book ; The preoccupation of the moment ; The special commission ; Three faces, one secret ; Extrajudicial measures ; Extrajudicial acts ; Itinerant libraries -- Saving appearances : Theological speculations ; A theological Galilean: Giuseppe Balli ; From the book of the universe to the world: cartesian heresies ; Theological police ; Abhorrence of a vacuum ; Return to the stage ; Galilean metaphysics: the “tall monk” ; Water under the Arno’s bridges? ; A new document on Galileo, an old sin -- Conclusion : The staging of a drama ; Retrospective illusions ; A common good.
Translation of: Redondi, Pietro Galileo eretico. Torino : G. Einaudi, ©1983 9788806056322 (OCoLC)10427851

Summary:

Draws on new evidence to argue that the Jesuits had plotted Galileo's downfall for reasons other than his beliefs about astronomy.
Pietro Redondi boldy reinterprets Galileo's famous trial for heresy in 1633, when the Inquisition forced him to abjure all writings that described the sun as the central body of the universe, with the earth and other planets revolving around it. Dr. Redondi has discovered a new document, predating the trial, in the Archives of the Vatican Holy Office: an anonymous and rigorous denunciation of Galileo on the grounds that his new naturalistic philosophy and his advocacy of atomism threatened the all-important dogma of the Eucharist. Galileo: Heretic draws on this new evidence to argue that the Jesuits had plotted Galileo's downfall for reasons other than his beliefs about astronomy. Through a convincing re-creation of the theologically charged atmosphere of the period, the work suggests that Copernicanism was, in effect, a red herring, and that the trial was a cover-up for the much more serious accusation of heresy concerning the Eucharist. In short, Galileo may have narrowly escaped being burned at the stake. Vividly depicting the atmosphere of Baroque Italy, and particularly the manners, morals, and customs of Counter-Reformation Rome, the author describes how Galileo's trial for heliocentrism was stage-managed to divert attention from the challenges that a revival of atomism might pose to Catholic Eucharistic doctrine. Dr. Redondi's book reveals that many key figures in papal Rome might have suffered as supporters and as critics of Galileo's natural philosophy and were, in fact, sent or kept away from the city during the trial - and for long after, since their presence and the suspicions they aroused might have implicated Galileo's most important patron, Pope Urban VIII himself. -- from dust jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691084513
9780691084510

Subject:

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo <1564-1642>
Science, Renaissance.
Science Philosophy History.
Science history
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Sciences Philosophie Histoire.
Science Philosophy.
Ketterprocessen.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Rosenthal, Raymond, 1915-1995, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 16918
Call No.: ID:87-B16336
Status: Available