Through the Eyes of Idolatry: Pignoriaâs 1615 Argument on the ConformitÃ  of Idols from the West and East Indies with Egyptian Gods

Paola von Wyss-Giacosa

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In 1615, the Paduan antiquary Lorenzo Pignoria (1571â1631) published a revised edition of Cartariâs Le vere e nove imagini de gli dei delli antichi. He added a new part on the diffusion of idolatry to the Americas and Asia, basing his Egyptogenetic argument on objects and images as evidence. This systematically illustrated treatise represents an innovative attempt at historical research into the origins of religious worship. A close reading of the text and study of the engravingsâ genesis lay open not only their richness and complexity, but also their intriguing contradictions. The antiquary concurrently employed different explanatory models to make sense of religious alterity on the basis of material evidence. The chapter discusses Pignoriaâs comparative method and particularly the intellectual and emotional challenges posed by his use of conformitÃ as a heuristic tool for dealing with the collected sources.

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Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination

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