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The Book of the Beasts (Llibre de les bèsties) is the seventh of the ten parts into which Felix or the Book of Wonders (1288-1289) is divided, and takes the place of a zoological treatise. In fact, it represents a serious reflection upon politics in the form of a fable. Llull sets up a complex plot, full of nuances, in which we can follow the machinations of Na Renard, the vixen, in her aim of achieving dominance and of exercising power from behind the scenes. The animals in the fable, which Llull took from oriental sources and from the French Roman de Renard, are a pretext for depicting some of the more sinister facets of the
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