Luxury and Public Happiness in the Italian Enlightenment (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 19, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199269839
First sentence: When Jean-Francois Melon, author of one of the most important reflections on luxury in the eighteenth century, complained about the vagueness of the term, he addressed a common theme.