Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome by Evelyn Lincoln

Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome

Evelyn Lincoln

304 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints, and the order of the cosmos, they mad...

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