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Standing at the crossroads : stories of doubt in Renaissance Italy /

Imagined as an armed old man leaping like a locust or as a young man walking in the dark, doubt occupies a prominent place in the mental landscape of Renaissance Italians. Intriguing stories of doubters, as well as allegories and tales of doubt populated sonnets, dialogues, novelle, religious tracts...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Faini, Marco (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023.
Series:Italian perspectives ; 58.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : wise donkeys and wicked friars
  • A young man in the dark
  • Tales of doubt
  • Doubting women and their circles
  • Doubt and the challenge to orthodoxy
  • The sociability of doubt
  • Conclusion : toward a new season.