ABSTRACT
Torquato Accetto’s description of the Last Judgment comes toward the end of Della dissimulazione onesta (Honest Dissimulation), a short treatise written in 1641 in response to life at court. Employed as a secretary in Andria, a city ruled by the Carafa family, Accetto also wrote poems and traveled to Rome and Naples, then under Spanish control.2 Otherwise little is known of the man whose obscurity may be in keeping with the voluntary concealment and the need to hide the bitterness of fortune he prescribes in his tract.3 Della dissimulazione onesta describes those movements of the face and gestures that are the forms of expression that came to be used at court in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.4
