Ebook: Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at t.;Contents; Introduction: Carne Vale and Carnival; 1 Love Bound: Andriana Savorgnan, Common Whore, Courtesan, and Noble Wife; 2 "More Dear to Me Than Life Itself': Marriage, Honor, and a Woman's Reputation in the Renaissance; 3 That Old Black Magic Called Love; 4 The Women Priests of Latisana: Apollonia Madizza and the Ties That Bind; 5 "The Fortune-Telling Friar": Fra Aurelio di Siena and the Wages of Sin; After-word: The Poetry of the Everyday and Binding Passions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.