Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe 1st Edition by Jon R Snyder ISBN 0520228197 9780520228191

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ISBN 10: 0520228197 
ISBN 13: 9780520228191
Author: Jon R Snyder

“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.

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe 1st Table of contents:

1. Not Empty Silence: The Age of Dissimulation
2. Taking One’s Distance: Civil and Moral Dissimulation
3. Confidence Games: Dissimulation at Court
4. The Government of Designs: Dissimulation and Reason of State
5. The Writing on the Walls

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