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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Fabrizio Ricciardelli and Andrea Zorzi
- 1. The Place of Renaissance Italy in the History of Emotions
- 2. The Emotional Language of Justice in Late Medieval Italy
- 3. The Anxiety of the Republics
- “Timor” in Italy of the Communes during the 1330s
- 4. Humiliation and the Exercise of Power in the Florentine Contado in the Mid-Fourteenth Century
- 5. The Words of Emotion
- Political Language and Discursive Resources in Lorenzo de Medici’s Lettere (1468-1492)*
- 6. Metaphor, Emotion and the Languages of Politics in Late Medieval Italy
- A Genoese Lamento of 1473
- 7. Debt, Humiliation, and Stress in Fourteenth-Century Lucca and Marseille
- 8. Renaissance Emotions
- Hate and disease in European perspective
- 9. The Emotive Power of an Evolving Symbol
- The Idea of the Dome from Kurgan Graves to the Florentine Tempio Israelitico
- 10. The Emotions of the State
- A Survey of the Visconti Chancery Language (Mid-Fourteenth-Mid-Fifteenth Centuries)
- 11. Control of Emotions and Comforting Practices before the Scaffold in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (with Some Remarks on Lorenzetti’s Fresco)
- 12. “Bene Comune e Benessere”
- The Affective Economy of Communal Life
- Contributors
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