Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 1998
Gerard Defaux. (Etudes Rabelaisiennes 32; Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance 309.) Geneva: Droz, 627 pp. ISBN: 2-600-00202-2. Many of the copious studies on sixteenth-century France published over the last two years reconsider science in light of the fine arts and literature. Why and how the world was observed with assertive curiosity and sudden intensity are questions studied in the selection above, chosen from a gamut of monographs that either work on canonical authors or reedit an array of strange texts that are neither fish nor fowl. As a result the horizon of French studies in the Renais...
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