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Tag Archives: Jacques le Moyne
MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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PROMETHEAN SPIRIT
The promethean spirit of the Renaissance man, forever inciting him to ”undertakings of high and sacrilegious daring,” is one of the major themes of ”The Lusiads” of Luiz Vaz de Camoens, or Camoes( 1524-1580 ) in his native Portugal. ”No … Continue reading
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Tagged Camoes The Lusiads, Dante Alighieri, Gilberto Freyre, H.H. Hart, Hernani Cidade, Jacques le Moyne, Jorge Luis Borges, Luiz Vaz de Camoens, Manuel the Fortunate, Pedro Magalhaes de Gandavo, Philip ( Filips ) Galle, Pierre Chaunu, Prometheus, Theodor de Bry engravings, Theodore de Bry
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