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• Animaux mythiques à la Renaissance.

  17 février 2010, par Blandine Perona

  The sixteenth century was a period of transition for mythical animals. On the one hand, world exploration and scientific inquiry threw increasing doubt upon the existence of dragons, unicorns, mermaids, etc. But on the other hand, these same creatures flourished in heraldry, emblematics, poetry and novels, and sometimes even zoological tracts. What place did such imaginary creatures have in the sixteenth-century ? Did their meaning and symbolism shift during this age ?
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