Venice, Myth and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bodin, Postel and the Virgin of Venice.(Review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

Marion Leathers Kuntz. Venice, Myth and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bodin, Postel and the Virgin of Venice. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999. xii + 336 pp. $101.95.

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