Ugo Baldini

Ugo Baldini (* 1943 ) is an Italian historian of science who is a professor at the University of Padua .

He received his doctorate (Laurea) with Paolo Casini at the University of Rome , with a dissertation on Giovanni Alfonso Borelli . He then taught history and philosophy at a grammar school and was also a freelancer in the university's history of science department. In 1972 he won a competition for a professorship at the grammar school and was due to another competition from 1987 to 1997 Professor (Professore Associato) for the history of science at the University of Chieti . Since 1997 he has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Padua.

He deals in particular with the relationship of the Catholic Church and the Jesuits to the sciences in the early modern period (15th to 18th centuries) and the development of educational institutions during this period. Here he benefited from the opening of the Inquisition archives under Pope John Paul II in 1998 and the then responsible Cardinal Ratzinger .

In addition to Borelli, he dealt with Ruger Boskovic , Christophorus Clavius , Robert Bellarmin , Luca Valerio and the Archimedes Studies in Italy, Gerolamo Cardano and the Inquisition and the Galileo case.

Fonts

• Editor with Leen Spruit: Catholic Church and modern science: documents from the archives of the Roman congregations of the Holy Office and the Index , Vatican, 2009, 4 volumes
• with Mordechai Feingold, Victor Navarro-Brotons (editor): Universities and Science in the early modern period , Dordrecht, Kluwer 2006 (in it by Baldini: The sciences at the university of Rome in the 18th century , pp. 201–230)
• Editor with Gian Paolo Brizzi: Presenza in Italia dei gesuiti iberici espulsi: aspetti religiosi, politici, culturali , 2010
• The philosophy at the universities and The philosophy and the sciences in the Jesuit order , in: Jean-Pierre Schobinger (editor) Outline of the history of philosophy. 17th century philosophy. Volume 1. General Topics. Iberian Peninsula. Italy , second half volume, Basel, Schwabe & Co., 1998, pp. 621-668, 669-769
• The Roman Congregations of the Inquisition and the Index and Scientific Progress in the 16th to 18th Century: Notes on the Chronology and Logic of Their Relationship , in H. Wolf (Ed.), Inquisition, Index, Censorship. Cultures of Knowledge of Modern Times in Widerstreit, Paderborn 2001, pp. 229–278
• The Academy of Mathematics of the Collegio Romano from 1553 to 1612 , in M. Feingold (editor), Jesuit science and the Republic of letters , Cambridge Mass. 2002, pp. 47-98.
• L'Inquisizione romana e le scienze: etica, ideologia, storia , in A. Borromeo (editor) Comitato del Grande Giubileo dell'anno 2000. Commissione teologico-storica. L'Inquisizione. Atti del Simposio internazionale Città del Vaticano, 29-31 ottobre 1998 , Città del Vaticano 2003, pp. 661-707
• Saggi sulla cultura della Compagnia di Gesù (secoli XVI-XVIII) , Padua, CLEUP 2000
• Editor: Christoph Clavius ​​e l'attività dei Gesuiti nell'età di Galileo: atti del convegno internazionale, Chieti 28-30 April 1993 , Rome 1995

In 1992 he edited Clavius' correspondence with Pier Daniele Napolitani (7 volumes, Clavius, Christoph; Baldini, Ugo; Napolitani, Pier Daniele (eds.), Corrispondenza, 1992 (1.15 GB))

Web links

• Homepage on stmoderna.it (as of January 19, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/mpiwglib/clavius