Body, Self and Melancholy: The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self - focusing on three self-narratives authored by Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710), a body description from head to foot, autobiographical writings, and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo.

Siglinde Clementi is the Vice-Director of the Competence Centre for Regional History at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she leads the research area of gender and women’s history.She is currently working on a research project regarding the concept of the noble house in early modern economics. She has co-edited, among others, the volume Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th century).