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Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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"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
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.
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