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The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630
Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family's dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university.
The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors.
A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy's history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.
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Reviews
"Does a university that lasted only six years deserve a full-length academic study? In this case, the answer is clearly yes . . . Highly recommended."—Choice
"A good professional piece of work."—Robert Black
"Grendler's book provides a wealth of new information . . . Written by one of the most erudite scholars of Italian Renaissance education, this story of a failed institution is an unqualified success."—David D'Andrea, Sixteenth Century Journal
"His study of the university and its connections with both the Society of Jesus and the Gonzaga, the noble family that ruled Mantua for generations, is meticulously researched and exquisitely detailed, and provides readers with a richly-textured exploration of political and intellectual life in northern Italy."—Mark A. Waddell, Canadian Journal of History
"Shapin's indubitable reputation remains . . . untouched for inspiring fruitful and controversial debates in the community of the historians of science."—Lavinia Maddaluno, Nuncius
"Reading Grendler's reconstruction of this courtly and intellectual adventure, we get the impression that we are witnessing a complex and carefully arranged experiment for testing the compatibility of the most representative elements of a cultural milieu."—Susana Gomez, Isis
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Other Titles by Paul F. Grendler
The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548-1773
The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Schooling in Renaissance Italy
Other Titles in HISTORY / Europe / Italy
The Bishop's Burden
Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice
Theaters of Anatomy
Other Titles in European history
Memory Crash
Before the Raj
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 50