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| | Giornale Nuovo |
 | | Drawing on rich sources of history, art, literature and philosophy, the author recounts the story of the mirror as one of discovery and invention, commerce and intrigue.’ My copy is a UK hardcover, 288pp; ISBN: 0415924472. |
 | | Every year or two I will forget my customary antipathy toward philosophical tracts and, acting on some uncharacteristic impulse, will order a big book of thinking-aloud, an impulse which, by the time the book arrives, I will find myself beginning to regret. |
 | | ‘H’ (below) is personified by Holofernes, whose martial, greedy and lustful nature is suggested by the armour & weapons, the pelican, and the decidedly phallic arrangements of fruit & vegetables respectively. |
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