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John Barclay’s Argenis (1621) is a Neo-Latin political romance that tells the story of the chaste passion of the only daughter of the king of Sicily for a foreign nobleman to whom she is secretly betrothed. It was one of the most widely read and imitated novels of the seventeenth century, with numer...

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Autor principal:	Jacqueline Glomski
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Lenguaje:	CA EN ES
Publicado:	Universitat de Girona; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016
Materias:	John Barclay romance fiction theatrical adaptation Neo-Latin literature French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature PQ1-3999
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