The Metaphor of the human Body as Microcosm, Especially in Renaissance Literature
FAIN: FT-11182-72
New York University (New York, NY 10012-1019)
Leonard Barkan (Project Director: July 1972 to present)
A study in Renaissance literature of how the human body has been used in metaphor as a microcosm of natural and political philosphy, esthetics, geometry and architecture.