The Age of Subtlety : Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Early Modern Exchange
ISBN-10
1644533448
ISBN-13
9781644533444
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Imprint
University of Delaware Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 2024
Print length
326 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 23.40 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800European historyHistory of science
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A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science, analyzing technical writings on conceits by such scholars as Baltasar Gracián, Matteo Peregrini, and Emanuele Tesauro against the background of debates on telescopic and microscopic vision, the generation of living beings, and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. It contends that in order to understand conceits, we must locate them within the early modern culture of ingenuity that was also responsible for the engineer’s machines, the juggler’s sleight of hand, the wiles of the statesman, and the discovery of truths about nature.
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