The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0400 Friday, 24 July 2009
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Date: Friday, 24 Jul 2009 11:36:41 -0700
Subject: Book Announcement: Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy
in Early Modern Europe
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the
publication of:
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Jon R. Snyder is Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has most recently
published a bilingual edition of G.B. Andreini's 1622 comedy, Love in
the Mirror, as well as a book on Baroque aesthetics, L'estetica del
Barocco. _
http://go.ucpress.edu/Renaissance
"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.
Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online:
http://go.ucpress.edu/Renaissance
Lindsay Wong
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Phone: 510-643-4738
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