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The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn /

"Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn vividly reveal in their diaries and correspondence the world of Restoration England. Now Margaret Willes uses the analogy of a cabinet of curiosities to provide a detailed account not only of the two friends but also of their times. Pepys was down to earth and real...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willes, Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: curiouser and curiouser
  • 'The world do not grow old at all'
  • Two worlds
  • The decade of the diaries
  • Prodigious revolutions
  • 'Even private families are ... the best of governments'
  • Private lives
  • 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure'
  • Take nobody's word for it
  • Pleasure above all things
  • Hortulan affairs
  • Exotic extravagances
  • The affection which we have to books
  • Epilogue: and so to bed
  • Appendix: the true domestick intelligence.