“Les beautez de Nature” Presence and paradigms of the natural world in the works by Agrippa d’Aubigné and his contemporaries (late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth Century): Introduction

This introduction presents the volume, whose aims are to study in some literary texts, diverse by their genres and intentions, how nature and the natural world are represented and the paradigms they are associated with, in an era crucial for the evolution of the relationships between human beings and the world they inhabit.