The Purpose of Praise: Past and Future in The Lusiads of Luís de CamõesKing's College, 1983 - 19 pages |
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... wisdom . This is a motif that occurs frequently in humanist Renaissance literature . In the dedicatory letter which prefaces his book , Couto specifically associates his soldier with the bucolic figure of the mythical Silenus . As Luís ...
... wisdom . This is a motif that occurs frequently in humanist Renaissance literature . In the dedicatory letter which prefaces his book , Couto specifically associates his soldier with the bucolic figure of the mythical Silenus . As Luís ...
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... wisdom and pleasure . 15 The beneficent power of Venus as the embodiment of a regenerating love in which flesh and spirit can be reconciled is the counterpart of her power as the celestial guide whose providential interventions save ...
... wisdom and pleasure . 15 The beneficent power of Venus as the embodiment of a regenerating love in which flesh and spirit can be reconciled is the counterpart of her power as the celestial guide whose providential interventions save ...
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... wisdom gained from the combination of " honest study and long experience " is , finally , in the conditional mood , disclosing the empty space which only history could fulfil . Helder Macedo King's College London 15 November 1983 I ...
... wisdom gained from the combination of " honest study and long experience " is , finally , in the conditional mood , disclosing the empty space which only history could fulfil . Helder Macedo King's College London 15 November 1983 I ...
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