Historia Amoris
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Canaletto and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A history of love as literature has treated it, from the Vedas and Egypt through Greece, Rome, the troubadours and the salons to the nineteenth century. Edgar Saltus wrote in a deliberately jewelled prose that was famous and then unfashionable within his own lifetime. The book is an anth...
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Canaletto and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A history of love as literature has treated it, from the Vedas and Egypt through Greece, Rome, the troubadours and the salons to the nineteenth century. Edgar Saltus wrote in a deliberately jewelled prose that was famous and then unfashionable within his own lifetime. The book is an anth...
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