Literature and intellectual disability in early modern England : folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640 / Alice Equestri.

Folly and insanity in Renaissance literature / Ernesto Grassi & Maristella Lorch.

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Literature and intellectual disability in early modern England : folly, law and medicine, 1500-1640 / Alice Equestri.

Folly and insanity in Renaissance literature / Ernesto Grassi & Maristella Lorch.