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Title page of ZWAAN: Ein Schoone HISTORIE, showing a woodcut image of what looks more like a somewhat cranky duck than a swan. Below it indicates it was printed in Amsterdam, which is indeed where I picked it up. So many forbidden things came from Amsterdam’s free presses that for a while the Inquisition banned all books printed in Amsterdam!

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Title page of ZWAAN: Ein Schoone HISTORIE, showing a woodcut image of what looks more like a somewhat cranky duck than a swan. Below it indicates it was printed in Amsterdam, which is indeed where I picked it up. So many forbidden things came from Amsterdam’s free presses that for a while the Inquisition banned all books printed in Amsterdam!
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Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 09:01:07 JST Ada Palmer

BOOK BURNING!
Challenge: you will NEVER guess what book this woodcut illustration of a book burning is from, *or* why it's there! 1/?
(A little thread for the countdown to the release of Inventing the Renaissance)

In conversation about 10 months ago from wandering.shop permalink