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Review Essay: Street Life in Early Modern Europe*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Fabrizio Nevola
Fabrizio Nevola*
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University of Exeter
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , Winter 2013 , pp. 1332 - 1345
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As an Italianist, achieving a European reach for this review would not have been possible without the facilities and staff of the Bodleian Library (Oxford) and the suggestions of a number of friends and colleagues, including Peter Arnade, Felipe Pereda, Deana Rankin, Gerrit Schenk, and Charles Zika. Thanks also to David Rosenthal for his helpful comments. Omissions and blind spots are all my own, however.

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