Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

by Guido Ruggiero

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079302
• ISBN13: 9780195079302
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"