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... Italy , and Holland . He wrote also " Corona Gotica , Castellana , y Austriaca politicamente illustrada , " 1646 , 4to , which was to have consisted of three parts , but he lived to com- plete one only ; the rest was by Nunez de Castro ...
... Italy , and Holland . He wrote also " Corona Gotica , Castellana , y Austriaca politicamente illustrada , " 1646 , 4to , which was to have consisted of three parts , but he lived to com- plete one only ; the rest was by Nunez de Castro ...
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... Italian , and German lan- guages . Besides his public courses of lectures on ana- tomy and surgery , he instructed many private pupils , not only of his own country , but those of foreign nations who were attracted to Paris by his fame ...
... Italian , and German lan- guages . Besides his public courses of lectures on ana- tomy and surgery , he instructed many private pupils , not only of his own country , but those of foreign nations who were attracted to Paris by his fame ...
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... Italian historian and critic , was born in 1436 , in the cam- pagna of Rome , on the confines of the ancient country of the Sabines , from which circumstance he took the name of SABELLICUS . He He was a scholar of Pomponius Letus's ...
... Italian historian and critic , was born in 1436 , in the cam- pagna of Rome , on the confines of the ancient country of the Sabines , from which circumstance he took the name of SABELLICUS . He He was a scholar of Pomponius Letus's ...
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... Italy , where he contracted an acquaintance with Bembus and other learned men ; and , on his return visited Erasmus at Friburg , when that great man was in the last stage of life . In 1536 , he married Melancthon's eldest daughter , at ...
... Italy , where he contracted an acquaintance with Bembus and other learned men ; and , on his return visited Erasmus at Friburg , when that great man was in the last stage of life . In 1536 , he married Melancthon's eldest daughter , at ...
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Alexander Chalmers. } denburg into Italy , where he seems to have contracted an illness , of which he died in 1560 ... Italian poet , but better known as a writer of novels , was born at Florence about 1835 , of an ancient family , some ...
Alexander Chalmers. } denburg into Italy , where he seems to have contracted an illness , of which he died in 1560 ... Italian poet , but better known as a writer of novels , was born at Florence about 1835 , of an ancient family , some ...
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