Category - Non Fiction / History

Format - Paperback

Condition - Fair

Listed - 23 days ago

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Est. Publication Date - Sep 1999

The Story Of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance

Publisher Description

This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Danaë and the shower of gold. Jaffee offers a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value ...