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Neo-Latin ‘Essays’: An Absent Genre that is Omnipresent
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Authors such as Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, and Oscar Wilde are notorious for having made sharp observations in a typically concise style. The literary genre they…

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Papy, Jan, “Neo-Latin ‘Essays’: An Absent Genre that is Omnipresent”, in: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, General Editor Craig Kallendorf. Consulted online on 05 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004271296_enlo_B9789004271012_0028>
First published online: 2014
First print edition: ISBN:9789004265721



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