COPERNICUS AND ITALY 2023

Session

First Italian Reception

008

29 Sept 2023, 16:30

Istituto Polacco di Roma, Palazzo Blumensthil (Rome)

9. Copernicus in Padua: Portrait of Astronomer with Figures

Giangiacomo Gandolfi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

29/09/2023, 17:00

We discuss one of the most plausible bona fide portrait of Copernicus during his Italian stay, brought to the attention by Sergio Bettini in 1975: that in the fresco dedicated to the Marriage of the Virgin in the Scoletta del Carmine, probably painted by Giulio Campagnola (1480-1515) in the first decade of 1500. The strange Juxtaposition of the astronomer and several celebrated painters...

22. Copernicus, the inferior planets, and the Italian Jesuits between Rome and Bologna

Flavia Marcacci (Pontificia Università Lateranense - Roma)

29/09/2023, 17:30

For most Jesuits, after the publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543), the center of the universe continued to be occupied by the Earth. As a head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, C. Clavius attacked Copernicus based on astronomical reasons. One of the essentials was the motion and position of inferior planets, Venus and Mercury. In some ancient world-systems, these...

23. An Unknown Astronomical Work on Planetary Theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini, Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581)

Razieh Moussavi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Prof. Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)

29/09/2023, 18:00

In this communication, we will present an astronomical work, inspired by Copernicus, that has thus far escaped the scrutiny of the historians of Renaissance astronomy. The Pontifical Antonian Library of Padua preserves a Latin manuscript in Italian, which is of great scientific quality and bears a Copernican-sounding title: Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (On the Revolutions of...

24. Man Goes To The Moon: Copernicus' Legacy, an unconventional perspective

Elisa Belotti (Università di Bergamo)

29/09/2023, 18:30

In this paper, I would like to analyse Copernicus' legacy by using two dissimilar texts which conceal a continuity far greater than one might think, namely Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius and The Other World: States and Empires of the Moon by Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac. After considering the Sidereus Nuncius as a manifesto of the scientific method, I will stress the similarity between...

25. The long term revolutionary influence of Copernicus on the Italian literature

Paola Focardi (Università di Bologna)

29/09/2023, 19:00

“Il Copernico” by Giacomo Leopardi is an ironic short treatise, written in dialogue form,
that the Italian poet wished to include in his “Operette morali” collection. However, he did
not, being aware that the treatise would have been noticed and rejected by the Neapolitan
censorship. “Il Copernico” was thus included in the collection and published only 8 years
later, when Leopardi had...