Scritture
Published 2024-12-23
Keywords
- Dictionaries of Mythology,
- Mythology in 18th-century France,
- Translations from French into English in the 18th Century,
- John Newbery
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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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