Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy

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Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy is written by Fabrizio Ricciardelli and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040797482 (ISBN 10) and 9781040797488 (ISBN 13).

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.