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Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

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Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

As mapmakers began to get a better and better sense of the earth's geography, some of the more playful amongst them, as well as some new to the art, turned their attentions to charting more ambiguous lands — creating maps that depicted ideas as places and the machinations of the mind and heart as a journey.