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Book Title: The Culture Wars Of The Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertin...
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Author: Edward Muir
Publication Name: Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance : Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Series: The Bernard Berenson Lectures ON the Italian Renaissance Delivered AT Villa I Tatti Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
