| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Brendan Dooley. Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 238. $36.50.

Although it would seem spectacularly imprudent and politically explosive to calculate astrologically the imminent death of a great seventeenth-century pope, the notorious Morandi case hitherto has never been treated for itself; the trial records, available since 1878, have been used only in passing and in a variety of diverse contexts. Similarly, the Galileo case has been studied from such enlarged perspectives as the history of philosophy, the great conflict between faith and reason, or the issue of freedom of inquiry. Only recently has it begun to be examined from the perspective of a history of elites within the political culture of baroque Rome, Italy, and Europe. By unearthing the astonishing network of influence and favors associated with the aspirations of Abbot Morandi and his fellow monks at Santa Prassede, Brendan Dooley's book, while persuasively speculating that Morandi's condemnation may have made inevitable the outcome of the Galileo case, succeeds more largely in its extensive, pungent recreation of the political/cultural world of Barberini Rome. . . .

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