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Marc Fumaroli
From the death of Louis XIV to the Revolution - in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany; among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, great ladies, and…
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La Fontaine was a great French lyric poet of the 17th century. This study is almost as much about Louis XIV as about La Fontaine. It provides analysis of the…
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Apres Napoleon, neant: on ne voit venir ni empire, ni religion, ni barbares. La civilisation est montee a son plus haut point, mais civilisation materielle, infeconde, qui ne peut plus…
M. A. Screech,Marc Fumaroli
Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. This…
Marc Fumaroli,Darius A. Spieth
Taking its cue from Horace’s saying As is painting, so is poetry, Marc Fumaroli’s treatise What Language to Say the Arts? revisits the genesis of the conceptual turn in art…
