Iovine will go to Rome for a research project titled When Rome lost the Golden Age. Academic Cultures at the Dawn of the Enlightenment. Her research focuses on when 17th-century Roman academies, literary and scientific, joined forces to harmonise mechanical philosophy, atomism, and alchemy in a Christian perspective. Had they succeeded, the Enlightenment would have been a much richer notion not inherently opposed to ‘religious obscurantism’. This study investigates the peculiar scientific revolution that Rome failed to make happen.
Rubicon grant for dr. Fiametta Iovine
Dr. Fiametta Iovine has obtained a Rubicon grant for her research on Roman academic cultures at the start of the Enlightenment. She will use her Rubicon to conduct research at the Uniersita Roma Tre, in Rome.
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- Schevelier, S. (Stefan)
