Change in the Italian cultural atmosphere during the period of absolute monarchy and the Galileo affair

• Project/Area Number: 22520338
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature (English literature excluded)
• Research Institution: Kyoto Sangyo University
• Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI Mitsuru 京都産業大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (50242996)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: イタリア文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

From the 16th to the 17th century, when the theoretical justification of absolute monarchy was advanced, Campanella, who worked toward founding an ideal Christian city state, and Bruno, who mentioned social reform, were both forbidden to philosophize freely and persecuted.
After the Inquisition in which the atomism mentioned in The Assayer contributed to the judgement of Galileo as a heretic, in a prudent manner he treated the indivisible and the infinity as a mathematical discussion and said that limited human intelligence is not able to understand infinity.
After Galileo’s trial, there were those who worked on a libertine theme such as Magalotti in the Galilean school, but the translation of Lucretius by Marchetti was not allowed to be published due to its atomistic character.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] ジュリオ・チェーザレ・クローチェとその生地サン・ジョヴァンニ・イン・ペルシチェートのカーニヴァル (2012)
  • Author(s): 小林満
  • Journal Title: 地中海学会月報 Volume: 352 Pages: 3-3
• [Journal Article] La lingua di Galileo (2010)
  • Author(s): Mitsuru Kobayashi
  • Journal Title: Atti della settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo Volume: Vol.4 Pages: 74-78
• [Presentation] L'infinito di Galileo
  • Author(s): 小林 満
  • Organizer: Giornata degli italianisti
  • Place of Presentation: イタリア文化会館
• [Book] Ricerche, scoperta, invenzione: l'Italia dei saperi (2014)
  • Author(s): Giorgio Amitrano, Chiara Zamborlin, Giorgio Fabio Colombo - Andrea Ortolani, Hideyuki Doi, Giulio Antonio Bertelli, Mitsuru Kobayashi, Akiko Harada, Taisuke Kuroda, Masao Kotani, Valerio Luigi Alberizzi, Francesco Usicco, Yoshimi Takeda
  • Total Pages: 161
  • Publisher: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Tokyo