ISBN:
9780195079302
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (318 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Binding Passions : Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance
DDC:
306.7094531
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at t
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction: Carne Vale and Carnival; 1 Love Bound: Andriana Savorgnan, Common Whore, Courtesan, and Noble Wife; 2 "More Dear to Me Than Life Itself': Marriage, Honor, and a Woman's Reputation in the Renaissance; 3 That Old Black Magic Called Love; 4 The Women Priests of Latisana: Apollonia Madizza and the Ties That Bind; 5 "The Fortune-Telling Friar": Fra Aurelio di Siena and the Wages of Sin; After-word: The Poetry of the Everyday and Binding Passions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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