Here’s a tidbit for any Wonders and Marvels readers out there who may be thinking about starting a family.
Until the late seventeenth century, Galenic notions of the body as a complex system of fluids (humors) dominated. In the sport of baby-making, the end goal was to mix male and female “seed” in just the [...]
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By Holly Tucker
What would happen if a painter-monk fell in love with a young novitiate? And what happens when an art historian pairs up with a novelist? Answer–The Miracles of Prato: A Novel.
The page-turning novel opens with a birth, a scandal–and then leads the reader into the dark corners of convent life during the Renaissance. [...]
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