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Portraits of human monsters in the Renaissance: dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati as idealized anatomical anomalies

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Difference as an inquiry -- Renaissance portrait and intellectual frame -- Perfected miniatures : dwarves at court -- A civilized savage : the hirsute's conquest -- Audible absence : the castrato's voice.

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    Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2018

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    1500-1750

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    • 1580442757
    • 9781580442756

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