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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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About the Editors |
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1 | (8) |
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6 | (3) |
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CROSSCURRENTS The Vernacular Revolution |
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9 | (140) |
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Vernacular Writing in South Asia |
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10 | (20) |
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12 | (5) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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The crookedness of the serpent |
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12 | (1) |
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Before the grey reaches the cheek |
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12 | (1) |
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I don't know anything like time-beats and meter |
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13 | (1) |
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The rich will make temples for Siva |
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13 | (1) |
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Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Legend of Basavanna |
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14 | (3) |
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17 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (3) |
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Saints, I see the world is mad |
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18 | (1) |
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Brother, where did your two gods come from? |
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19 | (1) |
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Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge |
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20 | (1) |
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When you die, what do you do with your body? |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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The road the pandits took |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (4) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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Have I utterly lost my hold on reality |
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22 | (1) |
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I scribble and cancel it again |
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23 | (1) |
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Where does one begin with you? |
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23 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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Born a Shudra, I have been a trader |
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25 | (1) |
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Kshetrayya (mid-17th century) |
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25 | (5) |
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25 | (1) |
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A Young Woman to a Friend |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover |
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28 | (1) |
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A Married Woman to Her Lover (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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A Married Woman to Her Lover (2) |
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29 | (1) |
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Wu Cheng' En (c. 1500-1582) |
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30 | (84) |
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33 | (81) |
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from The Ramayana of Valmiki: [Hanuman searches for Sita] |
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108 | (6) |
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The Rise of the Vernacular in Europe |
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114 | (35) |
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115 | (12) |
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Comparative Versions of Psalm 23 (``The Lord Is My Shepherd'') |
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116 | (1) |
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from The Vulgate (with English rendering) |
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116 | (1) |
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Clement Marot: from Psalms |
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117 | (1) |
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Jan Kochanowski: from Psalterz Dawidow |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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The Gospel of Luke 1:26--39 |
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120 | (1) |
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Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici: from The Life of Saint John the Baptist |
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120 | (1) |
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Martin Luther: from The Bible |
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121 | (1) |
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William Tyndale: from The New Testament |
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122 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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Bernardino de Sahagun: from Psalmodia Christiana |
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122 | (4) |
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John Eliot: from Up-Biblum God |
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126 | (1) |
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Attacking and Defending the Vernacular Bible |
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127 | (5) |
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Henry Knighton: from Chronicle |
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128 | (1) |
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Martin Luther: from On Translating |
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128 | (2) |
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The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (17) |
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Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala |
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133 | (1) |
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Desiderius Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady |
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134 | (3) |
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Catherine of Siena: from A Letter to Raymond of Capua |
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137 | (1) |
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: from Response to ``Sor Filotea'' |
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138 | (11) |
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149 | (77) |
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) |
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162 | (26) |
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164 | (24) |
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164 | (7) |
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First Day, Third Story [The Three Rings] |
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171 | (1) |
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Third Day, Tenth Story [Locking the Devil Up in Hell] |
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172 | (4) |
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Seventh Day, Fourth Story [The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out] |
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176 | (3) |
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Tenth Day, Tenth Story [The Patient Griselda] |
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179 | (9) |
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Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) |
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188 | (11) |
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189 | (10) |
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First Day, Story 5 [The Two Friars] |
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189 | (3) |
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Fourth Day, Story 32 [The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull] |
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192 | (3) |
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Fourth Day, Story 36 [The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad] |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (1) |
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Eighth Day, Story 71 [The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead] |
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197 | (2) |
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Francis Petrarch (1304-1374) |
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199 | (27) |
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Letters On Familiar Matters |
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201 | (11) |
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To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro [On Climbing Mt. Ventoux] |
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201 | (5) |
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from To Boccaccio [On imitation] |
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206 | (2) |
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Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno |
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208 | (4) |
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212 | (5) |
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During the Life of My Lady Laura |
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213 | (1) |
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1 (``O you who hear within these scattered verses'') |
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213 | (1) |
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3 (``It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale'') |
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213 | (1) |
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16 (``The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale'') |
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214 | (1) |
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35 (``Alone and deep in thought I measure out'') |
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214 | (1) |
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52 (``Diana never pleased her lover more'') |
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214 | (1) |
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90 (``She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze'') |
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215 | (1) |
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126 (``Clear, cool, sweet running waters'') |
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215 | (2) |
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195 (``From day to day my face and hair are changing'') |
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217 | (1) |
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After the Death of My Lady Laura |
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217 | (9) |
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267 (``O God! that lovely face, that gentle look'') |
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217 | (1) |
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277 (``If Love does not give me some new advice'') |
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218 | (1) |
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291 (``When I see coming down the sky Aurora'') |
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218 | (1) |
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311 (``That nightingale so tenderly lamenting'') |
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218 | (1) |
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Virgil: from Fourth Georgic |
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219 | (1) |
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353 (``O lovely little bird singing away'') |
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219 | (1) |
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365 (``I go my way lamenting those past times'') |
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220 | (1) |
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from 366 (``Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light'') |
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220 | (2) |
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Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators |
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222 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
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Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ombroso loco |
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225 | (1) |
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Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood |
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225 | (1) |
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PERSPECTIVES Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition |
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226 | (65) |
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Louise Labe (c. 1520-1566) |
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226 | (3) |
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227 | (1) |
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Lute, companion of my wretched state |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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Alas, what boots it that not long ago |
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228 | (1) |
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Do not reproach me, Ladies |
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229 | (1) |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) |
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229 | (4) |
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This comes of dangling from the ceiling |
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231 | (1) |
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My Lord, in your most gracious face |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) |
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233 | (1) |
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Between harsh rocks and violent wind |
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233 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
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234 | (5) |
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235 | (1) |
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1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'') |
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235 | (1) |
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3 (``Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest'') |
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235 | (1) |
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17 (``Who will believe my verse in time to come'') |
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236 | (1) |
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55 (``Not marble nor the gilded monuments'') |
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236 | (1) |
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73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'') |
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236 | (1) |
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87 (``Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing'') |
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237 | (1) |
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116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'') |
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237 | (1) |
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126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'') |
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237 | (1) |
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127 (``In the old age black was not counted fair'') |
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238 | (1) |
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130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'') |
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238 | (1) |
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Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) |
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239 | (2) |
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239 | (1) |
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1 (``Come, Heraclitus and Simonides,'') |
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239 | (1) |
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6 (``Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought'') |
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240 | (1) |
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10 (``My dear delight, my Ursula and where'') |
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240 | (1) |
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14 (``Where are those gates through which so long ago'') |
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241 | (1) |
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Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (c. 1651-1695) |
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241 | (4) |
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She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself, which she calls bias |
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242 | (1) |
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She complains of her lot, suggesting her aversion to vice and justifying her resort to the Muses |
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243 | (1) |
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She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings |
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243 | (1) |
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In which she visits moral censure on a rose |
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243 | (1) |
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She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears |
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244 | (1) |
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On the death of that most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera |
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244 | (1) |
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
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245 | (16) |
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247 | (14) |
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247 | (1) |
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Chapter 6. On New Principalities Acquired by Means of One's Own Arms and Ingenuity |
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248 | (2) |
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Chapter 18. How a Prince Should Keep His Word |
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250 | (1) |
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Chapter 25. How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs and How to Contend with It |
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251 | (2) |
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Chapter 26. Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians |
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253 | (3) |
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Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier |
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256 | (5) |
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Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) |
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261 | (30) |
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264 | (27) |
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PERSPECTIVES Literature of Religious Crisis |
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291 | (470) |
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Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466-1536) |
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292 | (15) |
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293 | (14) |
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) |
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307 | (5) |
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from To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation |
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308 | (1) |
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308 | (4) |
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Thomas Muntzer (c. 1489-1525) |
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312 | (3) |
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from Sermon to the Princes |
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313 | (2) |
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Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
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315 | (9) |
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316 | (8) |
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Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591) |
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324 | (2) |
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325 | (1) |
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Domenico Scandella (1532-1599) |
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326 | (6) |
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from His Trials Before the Inquisition |
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327 | (5) |
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Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553) |
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332 | (40) |
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335 | (1) |
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335 | (2) |
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Chapter 3. How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly |
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337 | (1) |
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Chapter 4. How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe |
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338 | (1) |
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Chapter 6. The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth |
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339 | (1) |
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Chapter 7. How Gargantua Received His Name |
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340 | (1) |
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Chapter 11. Concerning Gargantua's Childhood |
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341 | (1) |
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Chapter 16. How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris |
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342 | (1) |
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Chapter 17. How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome |
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343 | (2) |
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Chapter 21. Gargantua's Studies |
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345 | (1) |
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Chapter 23. How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates |
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346 | (4) |
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Chapter 25. How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lerne and the People of Grandgousier's Country, Which Led to Great Wars |
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350 | (1) |
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Chapter 26. How the Inhabitants of Lerne, at the Command of Their King Picrochole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepherds |
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351 | (1) |
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Chapter 27. How a Monk of Seuilly Saved the Abbey-close |
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352 | (3) |
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Chapter 38. How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad |
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355 | (1) |
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from Chapter 39. How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua |
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356 | (1) |
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Chapter 40. Why Monks Are Shunned by the World |
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357 | (2) |
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Chapter 41. How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep |
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359 | (1) |
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Chapter 42. How the Monk Encouraged His Companions |
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360 | (1) |
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Chapter 52. How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Theleme Built for the Monk |
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361 | (1) |
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from Chapter 53. How the Thelemites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed |
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362 | (1) |
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Chapter 57. The Rules According to Which the Thelemites Lived |
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363 | (1) |
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Chapter 8. How Pantagruel, When at Paris, Recieved a Letter from His Father |
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364 | (2) |
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from Chapter 9. How Pantagruel found Panurge |
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366 | (3) |
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Chapter 55. Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed |
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369 | (2) |
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Chapter 56. Pantagruel Hears Some Gay Words |
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371 | (1) |
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Luis Vaz De Camoes (c. 1524-1580) |
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372 | (37) |
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375 | (34) |
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375 | (4) |
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Canto 4 [King Manuel's dream] |
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379 | (9) |
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Canto 5 [The curse of Adamastor] |
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388 | (13) |
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Canto 6 [The storm; the voyagers reach India] |
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401 | (5) |
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Canto 7 [Courage, heroes!] |
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406 | (1) |
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from The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499) |
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407 | (2) |
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Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) |
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409 | (36) |
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412 | (33) |
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412 | (1) |
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Of the Power of the Imagination |
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413 | (7) |
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420 | (9) |
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Jean de Lery: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America |
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429 | (7) |
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436 | (9) |
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Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
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445 | (125) |
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449 | (121) |
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449 | (1) |
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Chapter 1. The character of the knight |
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449 | (3) |
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Chapter 2. His first expedition |
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452 | (4) |
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Chapter 3. He attains knighthood |
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456 | (4) |
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Chapter 4. An adventure on leaving the inn |
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460 | (4) |
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Chapter 5. The knight's misfortunes continue |
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464 | (3) |
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from Chapter 6. The inquisition in the library |
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467 | (2) |
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Chapter 7. His second expedition |
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469 | (3) |
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Chapter 8. The adventure of the windmills |
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472 | (5) |
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Chapter 9. The battle with the gallant Basque |
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477 | (3) |
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Chapter 10. A conversation with Sancho |
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480 | (4) |
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from Chapter 11. His meeting with the goatherds |
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484 | (1) |
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Chapter 12. The goatherd's story |
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484 | (4) |
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from Chapter 13. The conclusion of the story |
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488 | (4) |
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from Chapter 14. The dead shepherd's verses |
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492 | (4) |
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from Chapter 15. The meeting with the Yanguesans |
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496 | (4) |
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from Chapter 18. A second conversation with Sancho |
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500 | (6) |
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Chapter 20. A tremendous exploit achieved |
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506 | (8) |
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Chapter 22. The liberation of the galley slaves |
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514 | (7) |
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from Chapter 25. The knight's penitence |
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521 | (5) |
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from Chapter 52. The last adventure |
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526 | (6) |
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532 | (1) |
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Chapter 3. The knight, the squire and the bachelor |
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532 | (5) |
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Chapter 4. Sancho provides answers |
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537 | (2) |
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Chapter 10. Dulcinea enchanted |
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539 | (6) |
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from Chapter 25. Master Pedro the puppeteer |
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545 | (1) |
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Chapter 26. The puppet show |
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545 | (6) |
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Chapter 59. An extraordinary adventure at an inn |
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551 | (3) |
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Chapter 72. Knight and squire return to their village |
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554 | (3) |
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Chapter 73. A discussion about omens |
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557 | (3) |
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Chapter 74. The death of Don Quixote |
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560 | (4) |
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Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote |
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564 | (6) |
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Lope Felix De Vega Carpio (1562-1635) |
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570 | (40) |
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573 | (37) |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
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610 | (65) |
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613 | (62) |
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Aime Cesaire: from A Tempest |
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667 | (8) |
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675 | (14) |
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676 | (1) |
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Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed |
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677 | (1) |
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678 | (1) |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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679 | (1) |
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680 | (1) |
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681 | (1) |
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681 | (2) |
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Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned |
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681 | (1) |
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee |
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681 | (1) |
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Batter my heart, three-person'd God |
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682 | (1) |
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I am a little world made cunningly |
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682 | (1) |
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Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one |
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682 | (1) |
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions |
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683 | (4) |
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10: ``They find the disease to steal on insensibly'' |
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683 | (3) |
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from 17: ``Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die.'' |
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686 | (1) |
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687 | (2) |
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from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 (``Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice'') |
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687 | (2) |
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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) |
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689 | (9) |
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691 | (1) |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband |
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691 | (1) |
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A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment |
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692 | (1) |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children |
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692 | (1) |
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Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 |
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693 | (1) |
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On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet |
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694 | (1) |
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695 | (3) |
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698 | (63) |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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701 | (1) |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent |
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701 | (1) |
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701 | (60) |
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701 | (9) |
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710 | (20) |
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730 | (27) |
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757 | (4) |
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Mesoamerica: Before Columbus and After Cortes |
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761 | (49) |
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The Legend of the Suns (recorded 1558) |
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771 | (2) |
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from Popol Vuh: The Mayan Council Book (recorded mid-1550s) |
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773 | (23) |
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776 | (6) |
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[Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld] |
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782 | (5) |
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[The Final Creation of Humans] |
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787 | (2) |
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[Migration and the Division of Languages] |
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789 | (3) |
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[The Death of the Quiche Forefathers] |
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792 | (1) |
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[Retrieving Writings from the East] |
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793 | (2) |
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795 | (1) |
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Songs of the Aztec Nobility (15th-16th century) |
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796 | (14) |
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Make your beginning, you who sing |
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798 | (1) |
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Burnishing them as sunshot jades |
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799 | (1) |
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Flowers are our only adornment |
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799 | (1) |
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I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away |
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800 | (1) |
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Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, O Moctezuma |
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800 | (1) |
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I strike it up---here!---I, the singer |
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801 | (1) |
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from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered |
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802 | (2) |
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804 | (5) |
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In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower |
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809 | (1) |
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Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico |
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809 | (1) |
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PERSPECTIVES The Conquest and Its Aftermath |
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810 | (79) |
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) |
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812 | (13) |
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Letter to the Sovereigns (4 March 1493) |
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814 | (5) |
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from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503) |
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819 | (6) |
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Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1492-1584) |
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825 | (21) |
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from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain |
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826 | (20) |
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Bernardino De Sahagun (c. 1499-1590) |
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846 | (19) |
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from General History of the Affairs of New Spain |
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846 | (11) |
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from The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues of 1524 |
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857 | (8) |
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Hernando Ruiz De Alarcon (c. 1587-c. 1645) |
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865 | (9) |
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from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain |
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865 | (6) |
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871 | (3) |
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Bartolome De Las Casas (1474-1566) |
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874 | (5) |
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875 | (4) |
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Sor Juana Inez De La Cruz (c. 1651-1695) |
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879 | (10) |
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from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of the Divine Narcissus |
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880 | (9) |
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Bibliography |
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889 | (6) |
Credits |
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895 | (4) |
Index |
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