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... Italy ; everything is directed to this mark , as means to this end , either facilitating it or impeding and disturbing it , except for some few passages that serve to introduce the fable . Among the means I count Minerva and Mercury ...
... Italy ; everything is directed to this mark , as means to this end , either facilitating it or impeding and disturbing it , except for some few passages that serve to introduce the fable . Among the means I count Minerva and Mercury ...
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... Italian ottava rima Ovid's Metamorphoses . ANTIMACHUS OF COLOPHON ( 5th c . B.C. ) , poet and scholar , reputed foun- der of narrative elegy , much imitated , praised for sobriety and manliness by Plato among others ; edited Homer ...
... Italian ottava rima Ovid's Metamorphoses . ANTIMACHUS OF COLOPHON ( 5th c . B.C. ) , poet and scholar , reputed foun- der of narrative elegy , much imitated , praised for sobriety and manliness by Plato among others ; edited Homer ...
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... Italian printer and classical scholar , founder of the Aldine press ; born at Sermoneta , studied at Rome and Ferrara , settled in Venice in 1490 , gathered Greek scholars and assistants , published fine editions of Greek , Latin , and ...
... Italian printer and classical scholar , founder of the Aldine press ; born at Sermoneta , studied at Rome and Ferrara , settled in Venice in 1490 , gathered Greek scholars and assistants , published fine editions of Greek , Latin , and ...
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