Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany

. Yale University Press, $18 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-300-05133-9

Ozment translates letters to, by and about three young men representing three generations of the prominent Behaim family of Nuremburg, Ger., written between 1523 and 1638. Illustrated. (Dec.)

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