Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe,Used

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe,Used

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Larvatus prodeo, announced Ren 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 Descartesprinces, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alikechose 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 lesserknown 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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