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Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings
H. David Brumble
London • Chicago
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Copyright Acknowledgments The author and publisher are grateful to the following for permission to quote excerpts from: The Saturnalia by Macrobius, tr. Percival V. Davies, copyright © 1960 by Columbia University Press, New York. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Commentary mz the Dream tfreyChaucer. Second Edition by John H. Fisher, copyright© 1989 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., reprinted by permission of the publisher. G. Blakemore Evans (Editor), The Riverside Shakespeare. Copyright © 1974 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Excerpted with permission. Erasmus, The Enclziridion, tr. Raymond Himelick. Bloomington: Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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