A work that crisscrosses Europe with a focus on Italy to explore attitudestoward the art of dissimulation in the 16th and 17th centuries. Discussing manycanonic... » 

A work that crisscrosses Europe with a focus on Italy to explore attitudestoward the art of dissimulation in the 16th and 17th centuries. Discussing manycanonical works it examines the treatment of dissimulation in early moderntreatises and writings on the court civility moral philosophy politicaltheory and in the visual arts. «