HoP 370 - Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

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🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.

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0:00.0	music.
0:16.0	Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast,
0:20.0	brought to you with the support of the Philosophy department at Kings College, London, and the LMU in Munich.
0:25.0	Online at historyofphilosophy.net.
0:27.0	Today's episode will be an interview about Rome and the Renaissance with Ingrid Roland,
0:31.0	who is University of Notre Dame professor of architecture and history based in Rome.
0:36.0	Hello Ingrid.
0:37.0	Hello.
0:38.0	Thanks for coming on the podcast.
0:40.0	In this series, I have focused a lot on Florence and Padua,
0:44.0	which are the two Italian cities that people most associate with philosophy in the Renaissance.
0:50.0	And I've touched on some other cities like Bologna,
0:53.0	because when I talked about the teaching of medicine there,
0:56.0	and Milan as a rival to Florence,
0:59.0	but I haven't said that much about Rome actually.
1:02.0	And so I was wondering if you could just start out by telling us how the intellectual
1:06.0	and philosophical climate of Rome differed from those cities in like the 15th, 16th centuries.
1:13.0	Rome, unlike those cities, has a complete interruption of its normal social and cultural life,
1:21.0	when the popes leave Rome in 1308.
1:25.0	Officially, the popes are supposed to be back in Rome by 1386,
1:31.0	but in practical terms, it's not until well into the 15th century
1:36.0	that the Rome that we think about is the head of Catholicism, home of the Curia.
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