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Will’s World: European Literature in Shakespeare’s time

Titus Maccius Plautus (author), M. Plauti linguae latinae Principis comoediae (Venice, 1511). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Terence (author), Niccolo Forteguerri (translator), Pub. Terentii Comoediae (Urbino, 1736). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund  

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Plutarch (author), Gérard de Vercel (editor), Lives. Latin (Venice, 1516). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Suetonius (author), George de la Bouthière (translator), Vitae XII. Caesarum (Lyon, 1556). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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John Stow (author), Johannes Kip (illustrator), A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark (London, 1754-55, 6th edition). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Lodovico Ariosto (author), Girola mo Porro (illustrator), Orlando furioso (Venice, 1584). National Gallery of Art Library,  David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Baldassare Castiglione (author), Raphael (illustrator), George Vertue (engraver), Libro del cortegiano. English and Italian (London, 1727). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Ernest Philip Alphonse Law (author), Benoit Arlaud (illustrator), Gaspard Duchange (engraver), The History of Hampton Court Palace (London, 1888). National Gallery of Art Library, Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books 

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Dorothy N. Stewart (artist), W. Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Santa Fe, NM: Pictograph Press, 1949). Copy 73 of 100. National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund. © 1949 Pictograph Press, Santa FE, NM

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Sicille (author), Blason des couleurs en armes, livrées et divises (Paris, 1540). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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János Zsámboki (author), Emblemata, cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis (Antwerp, 1564). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Ovid (author), Gabriele Simeoni (translator), Bernard Salomon (illustrator), La vita et Metamorfoseo d’Ovidio, figurato & abbreuiato in forma d’epigrammi (Lyon, 1559). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Ovid (author), George Sandys (translator), Francis Cleyn (illustrator), Salomon Savery (engraver), Metamorphoses. English (London, 1640). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Andrea Alciati (author), Pierre Eskrich (illustrator), Emblematum liber, Italian (Lyon, 1551). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Francis Quarles (author), Emblemes (London, 1736). National Gallery of Art Library, William H. Gerdts and Abigail Booth Gerdts Collection 

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Otto van Veen (author), Gijsbert van Veen (illustrator), Q. Horatii Flacci emblemata (Antwerp, 1612). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Carlo Cantù (author), Stefano Della Bella (illustrator), Cicalamento in canzonetta ridicolose, o, Vero trattato di matrimonio trá Bvffetto e Colombina comici (Florence, 1646). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Russell Maret (artist), The players & paradigms of the Commedia dell’Arte (New York: Kuboaa, 1996). National Gallery of Art Library, Gift of Patricia G. England. © 1996 Kuboaa, New York

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Robert Wilkinson (author), Theatrum illustrate (London, 1825). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund 

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Joseph Furttenbach (author), Johann Jacob Campanus (illustrator), Matthaeus Rembold (engraver), Architectura recreationis (Augsburg, 1640). National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund  

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