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The Story of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance
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The Story of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance Hardcover - 1999

by Michele Jaffe


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This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Dana and the shower of gold. Michele Jaffe's philological and pictorial argument links, across several languages, such seemingly disparate concepts as money, coins, mothers (through the mint's matrix), subjects, courtiers, prostitutes (through etymologies that join minting, standing-under, standing-for), ciphers, codes, and the codex form. This ambitious book is a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value and the place-holder constructing value. It traces the wide-ranging implications of "nothing"--not only in mathematics but also in literature. Along the way, it makes important points about the orthography and editing of early modern texts, and about the material affinities of these texts with painting and minting.

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  • Title The Story of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance
  • Author Michele Jaffe
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Department of Comparative, Cambridge, MA
  • Date September 30, 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780674839502 / 0674839501
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.4 x 0.71 in (24.18 x 16.26 x 1.80 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Italy - Civilization - 1268-1559, Renaissance - Italy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99028467
  • Dewey Decimal Code 945.05
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