Binding passions : tales of magic, marriage, and power at the end of the Renaissance

Ruggiero, Guido 1944- (Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0195083202
ISBN: 0195079302
ISBN: 9781423736769
ISBN: 9781280526527
ISBN: 9781280443503
ISBN: 9780195083200
ISBN: 9780195079302
ISBN: 1423736761
ISBN: 1280526521
ISBN: 1280443502
ISBN: 0195083202
ISBN: 0195079302
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages)
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Computer data.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : Carne vale and carnival -- Love bound : Andriana Savorgnan, common whore, courtesan, and noble wife -- "More dear to me than life itself" : marriage, honor, and a woman's reputation in the Renaissance -- That old black magic called love -- The women priests of Latisana : Apollonia Madizza and the ties that bind -- "The fortune-telling friar" : Fra Aurelio di Siena and the wages of sin -- Afterword : the poetry of the everyday and binding passions.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.