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Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Jon R. Snyder
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
"Larvatus prodeo," announced Rene Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence of this new culture of secrecy, and from Naples to the Netherlands controversy swirled for two centuries ... Read more
"Larvatus prodeo," announced Rene Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence of this new culture of secrecy, and from Naples to the Netherlands controversy swirled for two centuries ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520274631
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V9780520274631
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About Jon R. Snyder
Jon R. Snyder is Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has most recently published a bilingual edition of G.B. Andreini's 1622 comedy, Love in the Mirror, as well as a book on Baroque aesthetics, L'estetica del Barocco.
Reviews for Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
"[A] thoughtful, intricate, and nuanced book."
Douglas Biow American Historical Review
Douglas Biow American Historical Review