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Dancing Around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism by Eric M. MacPhail

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #232

Dancing Around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism

Eric M. MacPhail

174 pages hardcover 2014

1 edition

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This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation ...

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