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Icon animorum, or, The mirror of minds /
Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual''s peculiarities of behavior and temper...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Louvain, Belgium :
Leuven University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Bibliotheca Latinitatis novae.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual''s peculiarities of behavior and temperament from the 'genius'' - the individual character created by each person''s upbringing, time of life, and profession. Barclay likewise describes each nation''s genius, its national character, and provides some of the geographical and historical background from which he claims this genius arose. The essay is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789461661395 9461661398 9058679454 9789058679451 |