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Cover illustration: The Dutch Proverbs (1559), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Courtesy the Google Art Project in cooperation with the Gemäldegalerie Berlin.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kircher, Timothy, author.
Title: Before enlightenment : play and illusion in Renaissance humanism / by Timothy Kircher.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; 326 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020036017 (print) | LCCN 2020036018 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004442696 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004442702 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: European literature—Renaissance, 1450–1600—History and criticism. | Humanism in literature. | Humanists—Europe—History—16th century.
Classification: LCC PN731 .K57 2021 (print) | LCC PN731 (ebook) | DDC 144—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036017
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036018
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ISSN 0920-8607
ISBN 978-90-04-44269-6 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-44270-2 (e-book)
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