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*) This paper was originally given at the conference “The Iconography of the Fan­tas­tic” in Szeged, Hungary, July 1998. I would like to express my gratitude to the Carlsberg Foundation for a grant in 1999 to continue my research on the subjects here discussed. I would also like to thank Stacey Cozart for her kind assistan­ce with the English.