Mysteriously Meant : The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance

• Author: Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972.
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins Press, [1970]; ©[1970]
• Year of Publication: 1971; 1970
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 354 p.); illus.

In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that t...