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On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy - Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (Hardcover)
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On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy - Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (Hardcover)
Series: Haney Foundation Series
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In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob
Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially
modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas
Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints
that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern
period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and
generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was
important and highly complex for a variety of men in this
particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite
and those who aspired to be part of it. Biow explores the
individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems,
educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an
increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of
artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of
work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures
familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolo
Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less
so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist
Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he
demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by
acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of
professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male
adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these
and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our
understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the
individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader
European Renaissance.
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