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Quaderni Veneti
Journal issue | 8 | 2019
Research Article | «Che volete mo’, ch’io guasti un libro?»
«Che volete mo’, ch’io guasti un libro?»
La rappresentazione di Filippo Mocenigo come vescovo filosofo nella Perfettione della vita politica (1579) di Paolo Paruta
Abstract
The Venetian political writer Paolo Paruta presented Filippo Mocenigo, the last Catholic Archbishop of Nicosia (Cyprus) before the Ottoman conquest, as an important character of his 1579 dialogue Della Perfettione della vita politica. Mocenigo, a most prominent member of the contemplative party, is depicted by Paruta as a sort of bishop-philosopher, very optimistic about the fact that Aristotelian philosophy (as it was still taught in the University of Padua in the mid-16th century) could help the search for human reason. Yet, Mocenigo was persecuted by the Roman Inquisition for his not-fully orthodox religious beliefs. In the essay, a comparison between Mocenigo as historical man and Mocenigo as Perfettione’s fictional character is developed.
Submitted: Oct. 7, 2020 | Accepted: Nov. 25, 2020 | Published April 21, 2021 | Language: it
Keywords Republic of Venice • Council of Trent • History of Cyprus • History of Censorship • Catholic Counter-Reformation
Copyright © 2019 Marco Giani. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/QV/1724-188X/2019/01/002
