The Science of Naples: Making Knowledge in Italy’s Pre-Eminent City, 1500-1800 (Book launch)
- Event type
- Seminar
- Series
- Italy 1200-1700
- Address
- Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Speakers
- Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Chichester), Neil Tarrant (UCL)
- Event dates
- Contact
- ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Email only
Lorenza Gianfrancesco and Neil Tarrant introduce their new edited collection the Science of Naples: Making Knowledge in Italy’s Pre-eminent City, 1500-1800. Long neglected in the history of the Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years scholars have variously focused on understanding the political and economic significance of the city of Naples and its rich artistic, musical and political culture. Its importance in the history of science, however, has remained relatively unknown. Drawing together experts in the field this collection offers a revisionist account of Naples’s contributions to the scientific developments of the period.
Neil Tarrant
Neil is currently an Associate Lecturer in the Department of History, UCL. He has previously worked at Imperial College, and the Universities of Edinburgh, York and Leeds. His publications include Defining Nature’s Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Lorenza Gianfrancesco
Lorenza is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Her publications include Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples Politics. Communication and Culture (Viella, 2018), co-edited with Domenico Cecere, Chiara De Caprio and Pasquale Palmieri; Tales of Two Cities. Naples and Florence, 1492-1789, co-edited with Vincenzo Caputo and Pasquale Palmieri (Viella, 2023). Lorenza is the author of a forthcoming monograph entitled Academies and the Urban Sphere in Early Modern Naples (1611-1648).
All welcome- this seminar is free to attend, but booking is required.
