Age of Subtlety

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Baltasar Gracián
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conceits
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creative freedom
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early modern culture
early modern studies
Emanuele Tesauro
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history of science
humanistic inquiry
ingenuity
Italian literatures
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literary studies
mathematical disciplines
Matteo Peregrini
metaphor
microscopic vision
natural philosophy
optics
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poetics
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rhetoric
rhetorical conceits
scientific inquiry
seventeenth-century Europe
seventeenth-century studies
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Spanish literatures
technological developments
telescopic vision
the microscope
the telescope
tropes

Product details

  • ISBN 9781644533451
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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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. 
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.