Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy

doi:10.1017/9789048524914

Emotions depend on language, cultural practices, expectation and moral beliefs. Hate, fear, cruelty and love are always turning history into the history of passion and lust, because emotional life is always ready to overflow intellectual life. This fascinating study of emotion in Renaissance Italy shows that emotions are built and created by the society in which they are expressed and conditioned. The contributors examine, among others, the emotional language of the court, around public execution, religious practices and during outbreaks of disease.

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Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Introduction
pp 7-14

1 - The Place of Renaissance Italy in the History of Emotions
pp 15-30

2 - The Emotional Language of Justice in Late Medieval Italy
pp 31-44

3 - The Anxiety of the Republics: “Timor” in Italy of the Communes during the 1330s
pp 45-76

4 - Humiliation and the Exercise of Power in the Florentine: Contado in the Mid-Fourteenth Century
pp 77-90

5 - The Words of Emotion: Political Language and Discursive Resources in Lorenzo de Medici’s Lettere (1468-1492)
pp 91-110

6 - Metaphor, Emotion and the Languages of Politics in Late Medieval Italy: A Genoese Lamento of 1473
pp 111-128

7 - Debt, Humiliation, and Stress in Fourteenth-Century Lucca and Marseille
pp 129-144

8 - Renaissance Emotions: Hate and disease in European perspective
pp 145-170

9 - The Emotive Power of an Evolving Symbol: The Idea of the Dome from Kurgan Graves to the Florentine Tempio Israelitico
pp 171-192

10 - The Emotions of the State: A Survey of the Visconti Chancery Language (Mid-Fourteenth-Mid- Fifteenth Centuries)
pp 193-208

11 - Control of Emotions and Comforting Practices before the Scaffold in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (with Some Remarks on Lorenzetti’s Fresco)
pp 209-236

12 - “Bene Comune e Benessere”: The Affective Economy of Communal Life
pp 237-251

Contributors
pp 252-256

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