title: Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
author:  Evelyn Lincoln 
description: <DIV>&#39;Evelyn Lincoln&rsquo;s lucid, imaginative, and well-researched volume provides reassurance. . .because she has found a significant niche in which the material object and the cultural object are inextricable. . .The illustrated book becomes, in the figurative if not the literal sense, a work in three dimensions. Which in the end is true of <I>Brilliant Discourse</I> itself, a beautifully produced volume with a richly multivalent interplay of picture and word.&#39;&mdash;Leonard Barkan, <I>Art Newspaper</I><BR /></DIV> (Leonard Barkan <i>The Art Newspaper</i> 2014-11-01)
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  # Imaginary Conversations and Poems
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Walter Savage Landor
  
  
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  * IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS
  
  
    * [MARCELLUS AND HANNIBAL](impo_split_2.html#1_1_1)
  
  
  * [QUEEN ELIZABETH AND CECIL](impo_split_3.html#1_1_2)
  
  
  * [EPICTETUS AND SENECA](impo_split_4.html#1_1_3)
  
  
  * [PETER THE GREAT AND ALEXIS](impo_split_5.html#1_1_4)
  
  
  * [HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN](impo_split_6.html#1_1_5)
  
  
  * [JOSEPH SCALIGER AND MONTAIGNE](impo_split_7.html#1_1_6)
  
  
  * [BOCCACCIO AND PETRARCA](impo_split_8.html#1_1_7)
  
  
  * [BOSSUET AND THE DUCHESS DE FONTANGES](impo_split_9.html#1_1_8)
  
  
  * [JOHN OF GAUNT AND JOANNA OF KENT](impo_split_10.html#1_1_9)
  
  
  * [LEOFRIC AND GODIVA](impo_split_11.html#1_1_10)
  
  
  * [ESSEX AND SPENSER](impo_split_12.html#1_1_11)
  
  
  * [LORD BACON AND RICHARD HOOKER](impo_split_13.html#1_1_12)
  
  
  * [OLIVER CROMWELL AND WALTER NOBLE](impo_split_14.html#1_1_13)
  
  
  * [LORD BROOK