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Editions and Translations

François, Béroalde de Verville. Le Moyen de parvenir. 2 vols. Textes de la Renaissance 94. Eds. Hélène Moreau and André Tournon. Paris : Honoré Champion éditeur, 2004. 496; 322 pp. index. illus. €43; €76. ISBN: 2-7453-1196-4; 2-7453-1212-X. Google Scholar
Giulia, Bigolina. Urania: A Romance. Ed. and trans. Valeria Finucci. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxxiv + 192 pp. index. bibl. $50 (cl), $21 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-04877-2 (cl), 0-226-04878-0 (pbk).Google Scholar
Peter, Brears. Stuart Cookery: Recipes and History. London : English Heritage, 2004. 96 pp. index. illus. bibl. £7.99. ISBN: 1-85074-872-1. Google Scholar
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Michelangelo, Buonarroti. Poésies/Rime: Édition bilingue. Ed. Enzo Noé Girardi. Trans. Adelin-Charles Fiorato. Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2004. cvii + 245 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index. illus. chron. bibl. €39. ISBN: 2-251-73104-1. Google Scholar
Jacob, Burckhardt. Italian Renaissance Painting according to Genres. Texts and Documents. Trans. David Britt and Caroline Beamish. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2005. x + 235 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-89236-736-9. Google Scholar
Giovambattista, Cantalicio. La vacanza fuori Roma del Papa Leone X e altri carmi scelti inediti. Nova Itinera Humanitatis Latinae. Collana di Studi e Testa della Latinità medievale e umanistica 1. Ed. Giuseppe Germano. Naples : Loffredo Editore, S.p.A., 2004. 255 pp. index. append. bibl. €15. ISBN: 887564-053-X. Google Scholar
Margaret, Cavendish. Sociable Letters. Ed. James B. Fitzmaurice. Peterborough, ON and Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, 2004. 336 pp. append. illus. chron. bibl. $15.95. ISBN: 1-55111-558-1. Google Scholar
Jehan, de La Fosse. Les “Mémoires” d’un curé de Paris au temps des guerres de Religion (1557-1590). Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 393. Ed. Marc Venard. Geneva : Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 200 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. gloss. bibl. CHF 95. ISBN: 2-600-00948-5. Google Scholar
John, Donne. Essayes in Divinity: Being Several Disquisitions Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers. Ed. Anthony Raspa. Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. lxxx + 210 pp. index. tbls. $80. ISBN: 0-7735-2300-6. Google Scholar
Philippe, Duplessis-Mornay. Méditations sur les Psaumes. Textes de la Renaissance 96. Ed. Pascale Blum-Cuny. Paris : Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2004. 416 pp. index. gloss. bibl. €76. ISBN: 2-7453-1206-5. Google Scholar
John, Griffiths, and, Fabris, Dinko. Neapolitan Lute Music: Fabrizio Dentice, Giulio Severino, Giovanni Antonio Severino, Francesco Cardone. Middleton, WI : A-R Editions, 2004. xxvi + 182 pp. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0-89579-566-3. Google Scholar
Michel, Jeanneret. Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. Titre courant 33. Geneva : Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 196 pp. illus. €16. ISBN: 2-600-00533-1. Google Scholar
Camillo, Querno. La Guerra di Napoli. Nova Itinera Humanitatis Latinae. Collana di Studi e Testi della Latinità medievale e umanistica 2. Ed. Debora D’Alessandro. Naples : Loffredo Editore, S.p.A., 2004. 218 pp. index. append. bibl. €15. ISBN: 887564-047-5. Google Scholar
Elena, Rapetti. Percorsi anticartesiani nelle lettere a Pierre-Daniel Huet. Le corri-spondenze lettererie, scientifiche ed erudite dal Rinascimenta all-età moderna 4. Florence : Leo S. Olschki, 2003. 236 pp. index. append. €23. ISBN: 88-222-5276-4. Google Scholar
Iacopo, Sannazaro. Arcadia/L’Arcadie. Les Classiques de l’Humanisme. Ed. Francesco Erspamer. Trans. Gérard Marino. Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2004. lxxx + 426 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. €35. ISBN: 2-251-34482-9. Google Scholar
Publius Papinius, Statius. The Thebaid: Seven against Thebes. Trans. Charles S. Ross. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxxvii + 386 pp. gloss. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-8018-6908-0. Google Scholar
Etienne, Tabourot. Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords: Quatrième Livre avec Les Apophthegmes du Sr Gaulard. Paris : Honoré Champion éditeur, 2004. 292 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. €56. ISBN: 2-7453-1003-8. Google Scholar

Bibliography and Reference

Gordon, Campbell. Renaissance Art and Architecture. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. xl + 320 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. chron. $45. ISBN: 0-19-860985-X. Google Scholar
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Anthologies and Texts

Paul, Edmondson, and, Wells, Stanley. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 194 pp. index. illus. bibl. $19.95. ISBN: 0-19-925611-X. Google Scholar
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W. M, Ormrod. The Kings and Queens of England. Stroud : Tempus Publishing Limited, 2004. Reprint. 352 pp. + 32 color and 93 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $17.95. ISBN: 0-7524-2598-6. Google Scholar
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Collections and Studies

David, Bagchi, and, Steinmetz, David C, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 289 pp. index. bibl. $70 (cl), $24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-77224-9 (cl), 0-521-77662-7 (pbk). Includes: David C. Steinmetz and David Bagchi, “Introduction: The Scope of Reformation Theology”; Denis R. Janz, “Late Medieval Theology”; Wendy Scase, “Lollardy”; Thomas A. Fudge, “Hussite Theology and the Law of God”; Erika Rummel, “The Theology of Erasmus”; Scott Hendrix, “Luther”; Sachiko Kusukawa, “Melanchthon”; Robert Kolb, “Confessional Lutheran Theology”; W. Peter Stephens, “The Theology of Zwingli”; Ian Hazlett, “Bucer”; David C. Steinmetz, “The Theology of John Calvin”; Richard A. Muller, “John Calvin and Later Calvinism: The Identity of the Reformed Tradition”; Peter Newman Brooks, “The Theology of Thomas Cranmer”; Carl R. Trueman, “The Theology of the English Reformers”; David F. Wright, “The Scottish Reformation: Theology and Theologians”; Werner O. Packull, “An Introduction to Anabaptist Theology”; David Bagchi, “Catholic Theologians of the Reformation Period Before Trent”; David C. Steinmetz, “The Council of Trent”; and David Bagchi and David C. Steinmetz, “Conclusion: Directions of Future Research.”Google Scholar
Hugo, Chapman , Henry, Tom, and, Plazzotta, Carol. Raphael: From Urbino to Rome. New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2004. 320 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $65. ISBN: 1-857-09994-X. Includes: Carol Plazzotta and Tom Henry, “Raphael: From Urbino to Rome”; Hugh Chapman, Carol Plazzotta, and Tom Henry, “Catalogue”; Arnold Nesselrath, “Raphael and Pope Julius II”; Nicholas Penny, “Raphael and the Early Victorians”; and Minna Moore Ede, “Chronology.”Google Scholar
Luigi, Collarile, and, Maira, Daniele, eds. Nel libro di Laura: Petrarcas Liebesgedichte in der Renaissance. Basel : Schwabe and Co. AG, 2004. 212 pp. index. illus. bibl. €26.50. ISBN: 3-7965-2084-7. Includes: Luigi Collarile and Daniele Maira, “Petrarca 1304-2004”; Martin Steinmann, “Petrarca und der Basler Humanismus”; Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, “Pétrarque et les poètes français”; Luigi Collarile and Daniele Maira, “Einleitung”; Luigi Collarile and Daniele Maira, “Introduction”; Luigi Collarile and Daniele Maira, “Introduzione”; Frank Hieronymus, “Petrarca und Basel, speziell die Basler Petrarca-Ausgaben”; Daniele Maira, “‘Laure d’Avignon,’ liter-arische und politische Mythenbildung einer Muse in der französischen Renaissance”; Stefano Jossa and Simona Mammana, “Petrarchismo e petrar-chismi: Forme, ideologia, identità di un sistema”; Jean Balsamo, “Pétarque, Ronsard et quelques autres”; and Luigi Collarile, “Per una geografia del petrar-chismo attraverso le stampe musicali nella prima metà del Cinquecento.”Google Scholar
C. Q, Drummond. In Defence of Adam: Essays on Bunyon, Milton and Others. Eds. John Baxter and Gordon Harvey. Norfolk : Edgeways Press, 2004. xiv + 272 pp. $54. ISBN: 0-907839-70-3. Includes: C. Q. Drummond, “Believing and Coming in The Pilgrim’s Progress”; “The Milton Controversy”; “Antagonistic Styles and Contradictory Demands”; “Satan, or, God Damns His Angels”; “Adam and Eve, or, God Hates Love”; “Milton’s Daring: Approaches to Impiety”; “Style in Ralegh’s Short Poems”; “Belief and Poetic Structure: Jonson’s Epigrams on the Death of his Daughter and the Death of his Son”; “What is Rational Form in Poetry?”; “Disproportion in the Poetry of Sidney and Donne”; “News from Boredom: Reviewing in America”; “Sequence and Consequence in The Pilgrim’s Progress”; “Nature: Meek Ass or White Whale?”; “Whalley on Mimesis and Tragedy”; and “On the Duties of Professors.”Google Scholar
Janis, Elliott, eds. The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. xxii + 234 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3477-9. Includes: Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr, “Introduction”; Rosa Anna Genovese, “Prologue: History of the Building and Restoration of the Trecento Church”; Samatha Kelly, “Religious Patronage and Royal Propaganda in Angevin Naples: Santa Maria Donna Regina in Context”; Matthew J. Madonna of the Apocalypse”; Cathleen A. Fleck, “‘To exercise yourself in these things by continued contemplation’: Visual and Textual Literacy in the Frescoes at Santa Maria Donna Regina”; Adrian S. Hoch, “The ‘Passion’ Cycle: Images to Contemplate and Imitate Amid Clarissan clausura”; Cordelia Warr, “The Golden Legend and the Cycle of the ‘Life of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia-Hungary’”; Janis Elliott, “The ‘Last Judgement’: The Cult of Sacral Kingship and Dynastic Hopes for the Afterlife”; and Julian Gardner, “Conclusion: Santa Maria Donna Regina in its European Context.”Google Scholar
Alessandro, Fontana , Fournel, Jean-Louis , Tabet, Xavier, and, Zancarini, Jean-Claude, eds. Langues et écritures de la république et de la guerre: études sur Machiavel. Storia delle idee e delle istituzioni politiche Medioevo ed Età moderna, Studi e Testi. Sezione Studi 7. Genoa : Name edizioni, 2004. 506 pp. index. €32. ISBN: 88-87298-54-8. Includes: Jean-Claude Zancarini, “Avant-propos: Historicité et dévoilement”; Jean-Louis Fournel, “Introduction”; Emanuele Cutinelli Rendina, Jean-Jacques Marchand, and Matteo Melera-Morettini, “Ipotesi per una ricerca: L’emergenza del discorso politico dalla storiografia toscana minore tra Quattro e Cinquecento”; Jean-Louis Fournel and Jean-Claude Zancarini, “‘Les mots propres et naturels et les termes d’Etat’: Lexique de l’action et syntaxe de la conviction dans le Prince”; Andrea Matucci, “La scrittura della storia nei “Discorsi” di Machiavelli”; Denis Fachard, “Des tulliane du Palais de la Seigneurie aux bibbie de l’épistolaire machiavélien”; Francesca Fedi, “L’argomentare per paradossi nei Discorsi: una proposta di lettura”; Marie Gaille Nikodimov, “A la recherche d’une définition des institutions de la liberté: La médecine, langage du politique chez Machiavel”; Mario Pozzi, “Appunti sulla lingua e lo stile di Machiavelli”; Diego Quaglioni, “Machiavelli e la lingua della giurisprudenza”; Alessandro Fontana, “De la vertu chez Machiavel”; Laurent Gerbier, “Les figures de la fortune dans les chapitres XXIV et XXV du Prince”; Paul Larivaille, “Education civique et politique dans la pensée de Machiavel”; Jean-Jacques Marchand, “Les institutions (ordini), les lois et les mœurs (costumi) chez Machiavel”; Marina Marietti, “L’ennemi intérieur dans les Istorie fiorentine”; Gabriele Pedullà, “Paura e virtù”; Quentin Skinner, “Machiavel: La République et la liberté”; Domenico Taranto, “Arte dello Stato e valutazione dell’economia in Machiavelli”; Cesare Vasoli, “Machiavelli, gli anti-chi, la religione e le armi”; Frédérique Verrier, “Lecture paradoxale des “Discours” sub specie feminae: des exemples aux métaphores”; Corrado Vivanti, “L’apprentissage de l’art politique”; Romain Descendre, “Giovanni Botero et la langue machiavélienne de la politique et de la guerre”; Gennaro Maria Barbuto, “De Sanctis e Machiavelli”; Xavier Tabet, “Machiavel et le fascisme italien”; and Alessandro Fontana and Xavier Tabet, “Machiavel après Machiavel: Note pour un travail à faire.”Google Scholar
Guglielmo, Gorni. ed. Italique: Poésie italienne de la Renaissance. Fondation Barbier-Mueller 7. Geneva : Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 159 pp. append. bibl. $25. ISBN: 2-600-00976-0. Includes: Francisco Rico, “Pétrarque au partage de midi”; Daniel Maira, “Sannazar entre Olivier de Magny et Hugues Salel dans Les Amours (1553), ou la complicité du dédicataire: étude d’une source inédite”; Giuliano Tanturli, “Una gestazione e un parto gemellare: la prima e la seconda parte dei Sonetti di Benedetto Varchi”; Stefano Prandi, “Il volo, il desiderio, la caduta: Icaro nella lirica italiana e francese del XVI secolo”; and Isabelle de Conihout, “à propos de la bibliothèque aux cotes brunes des Laubespine-Villeroy: les livres italiens chez les secrétaires du Roi dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle.”Google Scholar
John, Griffiths, and, Suárez-Pajares, Javier, eds. Políticas y prácticas musicales en el mundo de Felipe II: Estudios sobre la música en España, sus instituciones y sus territorios en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. Colección Música Hispana Textos. Madrid : Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2004. index. illus. tbls. € 36. ISBN: 84-89457-33-6. Includes: Luis Robledo, “La Música en la Corte de Felipe II”; Michael Noone, “Felipe II y la Música en El Escorial”; Tess Knighton, “Los Libros de Música de Felipe II: La Formación de una Colección Real”; María Sanhuesa Fonseca, “El ‘Vicio Templado’ de Felipe el Piadoso: Música y Educación para Felipe III”; Pepe Rey, “Apuntes Sobre Música Naval y Náutica”; Javier Suárez-Pajares, “Dinero y Honor: Aspectos del Magisterio de Capilla en la España de Francisco Guerrero”; Juan Ruiz Jiménez, “Ministriles y Extravagantes en la Celebración Religiosa”; François Reynaud, “Música y Músicos Toledanos: Grupos e Indi-viduos Fuera de la Catedral”; Juan Carlos Asensio Palacios, “El Canto Llano en la España del Siglo XVI: De Olvidos y Protagonismos”; Soterraña Aguirre Rincón, “Sonido en el Silencio: Monjas y Músicas en la España de 1550 a 1650”; Andrés Cea Galán, “Órganos en la España de Felipe II: Elementos de Procedencia Foránea en la Organería Autóctona”; Miguel A. Roig-Francolí, “Procesos Com-positivos y Estructura Musical: Teoría y Práctica en Antonio de Cabezón y Tomás de Santa María”; John Griffiths, “La Vihuela en la época de Felipe II”; Owen Rees, “Relaciones Musicales entre España y Portugal”; Dinko Fabris, “La Música en Nápoles en el Tiempo de Felipe II”; and Leonardo J. Waisman, “La América Española: Proyecto y Resistencia.”Google Scholar
Christopher, Ivic, and, Williams, Grant, eds Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe’s legacies. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 3. London and New York : Routledge, 2004. x + 195 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-415-31046-6. Includes: William E. Engel, “The Decay of Memory”; Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., “Lethargic Corporeality On and Off the Early Modern Stage”; Elizabeth D. Faerie Queene”; Grant Williams, “Textual Crudities in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica”; Amanda Watson, “Off the Subject: Early Modern Poets on Rhyme, Distraction, and Forgetfulness”; Christopher Ivic, “Reassuring Fratricide in 1 Henry IV ”; David J. Baker, “‘The religion I was born in’: Forgetting Catholicism and Remembering the King in Donne’s Devotions”; Elizabeth Mazzola, “Legends of Oblivion: Enchangement and Enslavement in Book 6 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene”; Philippa Berry, “Nomadic Eros: Remapping Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; Zackariah Long, “‘Unless you could teach me to forget’: Spectatorship, Self-Forgetting, and Subversion in Antitheatrical Literature and As You Like It”; and Jennifer Summit, “Reading Reformed: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library.”Google Scholar
Frank A., James, ed. Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations: Semper Reformanda. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 115. Leiden and Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. xxvi + 330 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $147. ISBN: 90-04-13914-1. Includes: Frank A. James III, “Introduction. Nunc Peregrinus Oberrat: Peter Martyr in Context”; John L. Farthing, “Praeceptor Carissimus: Images of Peter Martyr in Girolamo Zanchi’s Correspondence”; N. Scott Amos, “Strangers in a Strange Land: The English Correspondence of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr Vermigli”; Gary Jenkins, “Pater Martyr and the Church of England after 1558”; Peter A. Lillback, “The Early Reformed Covenant Paradigm: Vermigli in the Context of Bullinger, Luther and Calvin”; Richard Gamble, “Sacramental Continuity among Reformed Refugees: Peter Martyr Vermigli and John Calvin”; Douglas H. Shantz, “Vermigli on Tradition and the Fathers: Patristic Perspectives from his Commentary on I Corinthians”; John L. Thompson, “Patriarchy and Prophetesses: Tradition and Innovation in Vermigli’s Doctrine of Woman”; Dan Shute, “And All Israel Shall Be Saved: Peter Martyr and John Calvin on the Jews according to Romans, Chapters 9, 10 and 11”; John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., “Christological Currents in Vermigli’s Thought”; Norman Klassen, “Nature, Virtue, and Humanism: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections on Vermigli’s Romans Commentary (10-16)”; Donald Fuller, “Sacrifice and Sacrament: Another Eu-charistic Contribution from Peter Martyr Vermigli”; Joseph C. McLelland, “Valdés and Vermigli: Spirituality and the Degrees of Reform”; Emidio Campi, “The Preces Sacrae of Peter Martyr Vermigli”; John F. Jackson, “Law and Order: Vermigli and the Reform of Ecclesiastical Laws in England”; and Torrance Kirby, “Peter Martyr Vermigli and Pope Boniface VIII: The Difference Between Civil and Ecclesiastical Power.”Google Scholar
Minna Skafte, Jensen. Friendship and Poetry: Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature. Renaessancestudier 12. Marianne Pade, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, and Peter Zeeberg, eds. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. 273 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $46. ISBN: 87-7289-961-1. Includes: Minna Skafte Jensen, “Preface”; “A Neo-Latin Wedding Poem”; “Hans Jrgensen Sadolin’s Lyric Poetry”; “Latin Bucolic Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Denmark”; “Humanist Friendship in Sixteenth-Century Denmark”; “Latin Renaissance Poetry in Denmark”; “Lost and Found”; “The Language of Eternity”; “Appendix: Peder Hegelund as Author of the Rosenkrantz Epitaph?”; “The Latin Poet Zacharias Lund (1608-1667)”; “A Dream”; “The Alchemy of Love”; “Amicizia e amore nella poesia latina danese del Cinquecento”; “Eine humanis-tiche Dichterfreundschaft des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts”; and “Peder Hegelunds Sammlung der Epigramme Melanchthons (1583).”Google Scholar
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Claudia, Lazzaro, and, Crum, Roger J., eds. Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2005. viii + 293 pp. index. illus. chron. $57.50 (cl), $24.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8014-4288-5 (cl), 0-8014-8921-0 (pbk). Includes: Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum, “Introduction”; Claudia Lazzaro, “Forging a Visible Fascist Nation: Strategies for Fusing Past and Present”; Claudio Fogu, “To Make History Present”; Ann Thomas Wilkins, “Augustus, Mussolini, and the Parallel Imagery of Empire”; Gerard Silk, “‘Il Primo Pilota’: Mussolini, Fascist Aeronautical Symbolism, and Imperial Rome”; Jobst Welge, “Fascism Triumphans: On the Architectural Translation of Rome”; Diane Yvonne Ghirardo, “Inventing the Palazzo del Corte in Ferrara”; D. Medina Lasansky, “Towers and Tourists: The Cinematic City of San Gimignano”; Roger J. St. George and Mussolini’s Appropriated Renaissance of the Italian Nation”; Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, “Mussolini, Mothers, and Maiolica”; Claudia Lazzaro, “Politicizing a National Garden Tradition: The Italianness of the Italian Garden”; Emily Braun, “Leonardo’s Smile”; Benjamin George Martin, “Celebrating the Nation’s Poets: Petrarch, Leopardi, and the Appropriation of Cultural Symbols in Fascist Italy”; Christine Poggi, “The Return of the Repressed: Tradition as Myth in Futurist Fascism”; Jeffrey T. Schnapp, “Flash Memories (Sironi on Exhibit): Appendix: Mario Sironi, ‘The Manifesto of Muralism’”; and Roger J. Crum and Claudia Lazzaro, “Epilogue: Mussolini’s Body as Fotografia Infamante.”Google Scholar
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