Academy as Supreme Scientific Forum: its Origins in the Light of Pattern Offered by Italy. 15-17th Centuries Cover Image

Academia ca for științific suprem: originile sale în lumina modelului oferit de Italia secolelor XV-XVII
Academy as Supreme Scientific Forum: its Origins in the Light of Pattern Offered by Italy. 15-17th Centuries

Author(s): Veronica Turcuş
Subject(s): History, 16th Century, 17th Century
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Academies; Italy; Renaissance; Culture, Art

Summary/Abstract: The Italian Peninsula, through its well developed and institutionally highly organized cities, had offered a shining example for the setting up and supporting the academy, as a space for literary, philosophical, historical and scientifically debate. Their large number, most often in the same city, indicated the enhanced interest of the urban patriciate for literature, art and science, becoming a model for other European territories and societies of the Modern Era. The study systematically shows the efforts to create and preserve the academies in the Italian Peninsula, providing informative and historical documentary material on them. The entire reconstruction and debate intend to bring, by highlighting the evolution in time, notable contributions to the knowledge of a prestigious institution toward which were targeted the efforts of the society’s elite in the early Modern Era.

  • Issue Year: LVI/2017
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 15-52
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: Romanian