Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe by Jon R. Snyder

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Jon R. Snyder

280 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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"Larvatus prodeo," announced Ren Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-prince...

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