Vol. 13 (2024): Antiquity and Antiquities in the Long 18th Century
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A Mythological Dictionary. The Gentleman and Lady’s Key to Polite Literature

Aldo Corcella
Università della Basilicata

Published 2024-12-23

Keywords

  • Dictionaries of Mythology,
  • Mythology in 18th-century France,
  • Translations from French into English in the 18th Century,
  • John Newbery

Abstract

An investigation on the nature and sources of The Gentleman and Lady’s Key to Polite Literature (London: J. Newbury, ca. 1761), a dictionary of mythology that results to have been a hasty compilation mainly based on Pierre Chompré’s and André de Claustre’s French dictionaries, and from Ainsworth’s Thesaurus

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