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From Mythos to Logos: Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry and the Triumph of Minerva explores how myth was used to encode architecture and frescoed interiors with insights that promote peace, freedom and kindness as ways of being in the world. The author, Michael Trevor Coughlin argues that Freemasonry took root in the Italian city of Vicenza as early as 1546, and that its precepts, conveyed through the intersection of myth and philosophy, were disseminated widely in buildings and images, as well as texts, prescribing tolerance and an understanding of the divine that exists in each and everyone.

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Coughlin's book is valuable for its courageous attempt to investigate an extremely complex topic, providing a really interesting and clear analysis of the context. This book is intended for a broad academic audience in the fields of philosophy, history of art and architecture, literature, and religion, and it represents a valuable example of a meeting point among different disciplines. Francesco Marcorin, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. In: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 2021), pp. 696-697.

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Michael Coughlin, Ph.D. (2015), University of British Columbia, is a practicing artist and teaches Art History, Latin, Chemistry and Calculus in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also the author of The Leaning Tower of Pisa, his first book of historical fiction about an artist in the court of Lorenzo de' Medici.

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