1st Edition

Renaissance Keywords

By Ita Mac Carthy Copyright 2013
    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book investigates the languages of Renaissance Europe on seven keywords, such as allegory, discretion, disegno, grace, modern, scandal, and sense. It seeks alternative ways to understand a culture and society which produced conceptions of the self as much as it did art and science.

    The New Philologists 1. Sense 2. Disegno: Superficial Line or Universal Design? 3. Allegory 4. Grace 5. Scandal 6. Discretion 7. Modern

    Biography

    Ita Mac Carthy