Culture and Authority in the Baroque (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)
Contributors: Massimo Ciavolella (Editor); Patrick Coleman (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: November 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780802038388
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Italy; Europe - General; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Baroque literature; Civilization, Baroque; Histoire et critique; History and criticism; Littâerature baroque
First sentence: Sometime in the fourth century BC, there was a marvellous birth: the philosophical concept of wonder in the West was born.