The Baroque, which stretched from the end of the sixteenth to the
second half of the seventeenth century, is one of the most
enigmatic eras in history. In this book, thirteen distinguished
scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies,
intellectual themes, and social structures as they are reflected in
Baroque personae, or characteristic social roles.
Studying the statesman, soldier, financier, secretary, rebel,
preacher, missionary, nun, witch, scientist, artist, and bourgeois,
the essays depart dramatically from traditional accounts of this
era. The statesman, for example, is seen here as the exact opposite
of a benevolent man working for the common good; and the soldier is
depicted as part of an institution that could be savage and
destructive but that also, by the end of the Baroque age, helped
shape a more rational relationship with the military and civil
society.
The contributors are Rosario Villari, Henry Kamen, Geoffrey Parker,
Daniel Dessert, Salvatore S. Nigro, Manuel Moran, Jose
Andres-Gallego, Adriano Prosperi, Mario Rosa, Brian P. Levack,
Paolo Rossi, Giovanni Careri, and James S. Amelang.
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