This book examines the decline of the traditional hero and the emergence in the realm of representation of new symbolic heroic objects, such as gloves, the lute, or a book, which take the place of the glorious arms and wounds of yesteryear in literature and the modern arts in Europe (in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries).
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