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As fadas e a política no século XVII

Paula Ferreira Vermeersch
UNESP
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Published 2024-09-25

How to Cite

As fadas e a política no século XVII. (2024). Perspectiva Pictorum, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13892160

Abstract

Hybrid and magical beings, fairies, present in many popular narratives in the seventeenth century, amid serious economic and political crises in European national states, became characters both for Charles Perrault (1628-1703), one of the most influential men of the reign of Louis XIV, and Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), exiled during the English Revolution. Counselors of the king or his opponents, the fairies also seem to make mysterious appearances in Rembrandt's painting, and magically transfigure Politics.