The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 177
... learned men in times when princes loved knowledge . How does it happen , do you think , that in the last century literature flourished so much in Italy if not because Lorenzo de ' Medici and Leo X were so fond of it ? And was it not ...
... learned men in times when princes loved knowledge . How does it happen , do you think , that in the last century literature flourished so much in Italy if not because Lorenzo de ' Medici and Leo X were so fond of it ? And was it not ...
Page 179
... learned academies increases every day ; in short , I know of nothing more ordinary in the Kingdom than the refined good sense which used to be so rare here . Moreover , the bel esprit is not limited to men of letters ; it is found among ...
... learned academies increases every day ; in short , I know of nothing more ordinary in the Kingdom than the refined good sense which used to be so rare here . Moreover , the bel esprit is not limited to men of letters ; it is found among ...
Page 180
... learned , who handle the pen and the sword equally well and who know as much about planning a ballet or writing a history as about estab- lishing a camp or lining up an army for battle . We have also duchesses , marquises , and ...
... learned , who handle the pen and the sword equally well and who know as much about planning a ballet or writing a history as about estab- lishing a camp or lining up an army for battle . We have also duchesses , marquises , and ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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