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A Europa, em Jacques Barzun

por jpt, em 01.06.06

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Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence. 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,1500 to the Present, HarperCollins, 2001

"Europe is the peninsula that juts out from the great mass of Asia without a break and is ridiculously called a continent" (3)"The air is soft and delicious. The men are sensible and intelligent. Many of them are learned. They know their classics, and so accurateley that I have lost little in not going to Italy. The English girls are divinely pretty and they have one custom which cannot be too much admired. When you go anywhere on a visit, the girls all kiss you. They kiss you when you arrive. They kiss you when you go away. They kiss you when you return. Once you have tasted how soft and fragrant those lips are, you would spend your life here." (Erasmus on England in 1497) [11]"In the 16C and for a good 200 years more, insult was the accepted seasoning of intellectual debate. The solemn Milton, the sons of the Age of Reason, the aristocratic reviewers of Keats and Shelley used it freely." (17)

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