Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands

by Walter B. Gibson

Figures of Speech addresses a key topic in Renaissance studies: the importance and pervasiveness of proverbs. For sixteenth-century Netherlanders, proverbs revealed the wisdom of the Ancients as well... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259548
• ISBN13: 9780520259546
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"