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The Age of Subtlety: nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe By Javier Patiño Loira , Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2024. 311pp. ISBN: 9781644533444 £47.50 (paperback)

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The Age of Subtlety: nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe By Javier Patiño Loira , Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2024. 311pp. ISBN: 9781644533444 £47.50 (paperback)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2025

Maksymilian Del Mar*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Abstract

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Encounters with Books from Other Disciplines
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© The Author(s) 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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