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Decorum and Desire: Dance in Renaissance Europe and the Maturation of a Discipline*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jennifer Nevile*
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales

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Review Essay
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2015

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Footnotes

This essay is dedicated to the memory of Barbara Sparti (1932–2013), who contributed so much to the development of early dance, and who never stopped questioning the boundaries of the discipline.

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