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The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe: The Early Modern Exchange

Autor Javier Patiño Loira
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2024
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781644533444
ISBN-10: 1644533448
Pagini: 326
Ilustrații: 3 color and 12 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Delaware Press
Colecția University of Delaware Press
Seria The Early Modern Exchange


Notă biografică

JAVIER PATIÑO LOIRA is assistant professor of Spanish at UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on early modern Italian and Spanish rhetorical and poetic theory and the formation of libraries, as well as ideas on education and translation. 

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Early Modern Culture of Ingenuity 
Part I Comets
1 Poetry’s Comets: On Novelty and Artifice
2 Gossip Made of Glass: On Artifice and Deceit 
Part II Fireflies
3 At Small Scale: Multiplicity, Variety, and Play
4 The Life of Conceits: Juggling, Magic, and Alchemy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

The Age of Subtlety is the first book-length study to examine the seventeenth-century craze for rhetorical conceits in connection with scientific and technological debates. Focusing on Italy and Spain, it argues that these intricate and challenging metaphors became embodiments of a competition between natural and human ingenuity, as well as sites to reflect on the consequences of telescopic and microscopic vision, the boundaries between natural and artificial, and the generation of life.