{"product_id":"the-age-of-subtlety-javier-patio-loira-9781644533444","title":"The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe","description":"A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science, analyzing technical writings on conceits by such scholars as Baltasar Gracián, Matteo Peregrini, and Emanuele Tesauro against the background of debates on telescopic and microscopic vision, the generation of living beings, and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. It contends that in order to understand conceits, we must locate them within the early modern culture of ingenuity that was also responsible for the engineer's machines, the juggler's sleight of hand, the wiles of the statesman, and the discovery of truths about nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Javier Pati?o Loira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644533448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644533444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Delaware Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Javier Pati?o Loira","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094411268351,"sku":"9781644533444","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7456fbab-e5f1-47a7-a255-3d64a3f9d629.jpg?v=1724844578","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-age-of-subtlety-javier-patio-loira-9781644533444","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}