Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

by Guido Ruggiero

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195079302

ISBN13:9780195079302

Release Date:June 1993

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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Anthropology Cultural Europe History Italy Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences World

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