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ISBN/UID: 9780231152105
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 23 September 2010
Description
Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for...
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286 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231152105
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 23 September 2010
Description
Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for...