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In 1724 the Jesuit Joseph-François Lafitau published 'Moeurs des sauvages amériquains comparée aux moeurs des premiers temps', preceded by a celebrated frontispiece. The scene selected by Lafitau depicts time and the act of writing, arranged in an enclosed space composed of the 'remnants' of classical Antiquity and the savages of the New World (who are heard only as the voices of the dead, the echoes...
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