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Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

2009 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 0520228197 ;ISBN: 9780520228191 ;ISBN: 0520944445 ;ISBN: 9780520944442 ;ISBN: 0520274636 ;ISBN: 9780520274631 ;EISBN: 0520944445 ;EISBN: 9780520944442 ;OCLC: 773565056 ;LCCallNum: DG445.S64 2009

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  • Title:
    Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
  • Author: Snyder, Jon R
  • Subjects: 16th century ; 17th century ; Customs ; Europe ; History ; Interpersonal communication ; Italy ; Modernity ; Secrecy ; Social aspects ; Social life and customs ; Sources ; Truthfulness and falsehood
  • Description: “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.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 312
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0520228197
    ISBN: 9780520228191
    ISBN: 0520944445
    ISBN: 9780520944442
    ISBN: 0520274636
    ISBN: 9780520274631
    EISBN: 0520944445
    EISBN: 9780520944442
    OCLC: 773565056
    LCCallNum: DG445.S64 2009
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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