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Brilliant discourse : pictures and readers in early modern Rome
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Brilliant discourse : pictures and readers in early modern Rome

by Evelyn Lincoln

This study examines the production and impact of illustrated vernacular treatises in sixteenth-century Rome. It analyses how these technical and learned publications created social networks and engaged diverse communities of readers across the Renaissance city.

Accession 28663 ISBN 9780300204193 Publisher Yale University Press
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