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Author Snyder, Jon R., 1954-

Title Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe.

Publication Info. CA : University of California Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
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Contents Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Not Empty Silence; 2. Taking One's Distance; 3. Confidence Games; 4. The Government of Designs; 5. The Writing on the Walls; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-271) and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Italy -- Social life and customs -- Sources.
Italy.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
Secrecy.
Social aspects.
History.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Interpersonal communication -- Italy -- History.
Interpersonal communication.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Europe.
Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Interpersonal communication -- Europe -- History.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Secrecy.
Other Form: Print version: Snyder, Jon R. Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. CA : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520228191
ISBN 9780520944442 (electronic book)
0520944445 (electronic book)
1282361031
9781282361034
9780520228191 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520228197 (cloth ; alkaline paper)