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BINDING PASSIONS - Tales of magic, marriage, and power at the RENAISSANCE
by RUGGIERO, GUIDO
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition.
- ISBN 10
- 0195079302
- ISBN 13
- 9780195079302
- Seller
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Lucca, Italy
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About This Item
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Introduction: Carne Vale and Carnaval. 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 the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich complexity of the culture and poetics of the everyday at the end of the Renaissance and illuminates a previously unexplored chapter in Italian history. Contents: 1). Love bound. 2). More dear to me than life itself:3). That old black magic called love. 4). The women priests of Latisana: 5). The fortune-telling friar: Afterword: The poetry of the everyday and binding passions. With notes, bibliography and index. Guido Ruggiero is a notable microhistorian and professor and chair of the University of Miami History Department. His most notable work is 'Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance' which discusses tales of witchcraft and love magic in early modern Venice. VIII + 286 pag. . 1st edition. Half cloth with dustjacket. Fine condition.. 24cmx16cm.
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- Bookseller
- Festina Lente (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027257
- Title
- BINDING PASSIONS - Tales of magic, marriage, and power at the RENAISSANCE
- Author
- RUGGIERO, GUIDO
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195079302
- ISBN 13
- 9780195079302
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York / Oxford
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- italia carne vale carnaval latisana inquisition wichcraft gender andriana bembo savorgnan courtesans elena cumano dandolo di bibona feltre passions prostitution
- Size
- 24cmx16cm
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