The Age of Subtlety is the first book-length study to examine the seventeenth-century craze for rhetorical conceits in connection with scientific and technological debates. Focusing on Italy and Spain, it argues that these intricate and challenging metaphors became embodiments of a competition between natural and human ingenuity, as well as sites to reflect on the consequences of telescopic and microscopic vision, the boundaries between natural and artificial, and the generation of life.
The Age of Subtlety is the first book-length study to examine the seventeenth-century craze for rhetorical conceits in connection with scientific and technological debates. Focusing on Italy and Spain, it argues that these intricate and challenging metaphors became embodiments of a competition between natural and human ingenuity, as well as sites to reflect on the consequences of telescopic and microscopic vision, the boundaries between natural and artificial, and the generation of life.
Javier Patiño Loira is Assistant Professor of Spanish at UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on early modern Italian and Spanish rhetorical and poetic theory and the formation of libraries, as well as ideas on education and translation.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Early Modern Culture of Ingenuity Part I Comets 1 Poetry's Comets: On Novelty and Artifice 2 Gossip Made of Glass: On Artifice and Deceit Part II Fireflies 3 At Small Scale: Multiplicity, Variety, and Play 4 The Life of Conceits: Juggling, Magic, and Alchemy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Early Modern Culture of Ingenuity Part I Comets 1 Poetry's Comets: On Novelty and Artifice 2 Gossip Made of Glass: On Artifice and Deceit Part II Fireflies 3 At Small Scale: Multiplicity, Variety, and Play 4 The Life of Conceits: Juggling, Magic, and Alchemy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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