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Dissimulation and the culture of secrecy in early modern Europe [[electronic resource] /] / Jon R. Snyder



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Autore: Snyder Jon R. <1954-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dissimulation and the culture of secrecy in early modern Europe [[electronic resource] /] / Jon R. Snyder Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
Disciplina: 302.2094/0903
Soggetto topico: Secrecy - Social aspects - Italy - History
Truthfulness and falsehood - Social aspects - Italy - History
Interpersonal communication - Italy - History
Secrecy - Social aspects - Europe - History
Truthfulness and falsehood - Social aspects - Europe - History
Interpersonal communication - Europe - History
Soggetto geografico: Italy Social life and customs 16th century
Italy Social life and customs 17th century
Italy Social life and customs Sources
Europe Social life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: 16th century
17th century
affairs
aristocracy
canonical writing
commoners
communication
controversy
court writings
culture of secrecy
disguise
dishonesty
dissimulation
early modern europe
europe
inner lives
italy
masking emotions
modern history
moral philosophy
naples
netherlands
philosophers
political silence
political theory
private lives
rene descartes
secrecy
secret thoughts
textbooks
treatises
visual arts
writers and intellectuals
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-271) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Lost Horizons -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Not Empty Silence. The Age of Dissimulation -- 2. Taking One's Distance. Civil and Moral Dissimulation -- 3. Confidence Games. Dissimulation at Court -- 4. The Government of Designs. Dissimulation and Reason of State -- 5. The Writing on the Walls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: "Larvatus prodeo," announced René 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 around the powers and limits of dissimulation, whether in affairs of state or affairs of the heart. This beautifully written work crisscrosses Europe, with a special focus on Italy, to explore attitudes toward the art of dissimulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Discussing many canonical and lesser-known works, Jon R. Snyder examines the treatment of dissimulation in early modern treatises and writings on the court, civility, moral philosophy, political theory, and in the visual arts.
Titolo autorizzato: Dissimulation and the culture of secrecy in early modern Europe  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-36103-1
9786612361036
0-520-94444-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780637603321
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