General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... Italy , and became acquainted with the most considerable of the English exiled royalists . He was at Rome in the beginning of the year 1660 ; but when measures were ripe for the restoration of Charles II . he returned to England ...
... Italy , and became acquainted with the most considerable of the English exiled royalists . He was at Rome in the beginning of the year 1660 ; but when measures were ripe for the restoration of Charles II . he returned to England ...
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... Italy , and became personally acquainted with . the most eminent artists there , as Bambocio , Albano , and Guido ... Italian are abridged from Vasari and Ridolfi , and the Flemish from Van Man- der , but with additions from his own ...
... Italy , and became personally acquainted with . the most eminent artists there , as Bambocio , Albano , and Guido ... Italian are abridged from Vasari and Ridolfi , and the Flemish from Van Man- der , but with additions from his own ...
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... Italian and Latin poet , was born at Naples , in 1458 . His family , originally from Spain , settled at San Nazzaro in the ... Italy , where he devoted himself to poetry and letters , preserving his natural gaiety and the gallantry of a ...
... Italian and Latin poet , was born at Naples , in 1458 . His family , originally from Spain , settled at San Nazzaro in the ... Italy , where he devoted himself to poetry and letters , preserving his natural gaiety and the gallantry of a ...
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... Italy , " and he accompanied the last mentioned with " A Treatise on the Sovereign Princes of Italy , " in 8vo . After this he directed his labours to a more particular delineation of France , and pro- ceeded with this design , till it ...
... Italy , " and he accompanied the last mentioned with " A Treatise on the Sovereign Princes of Italy , " in 8vo . After this he directed his labours to a more particular delineation of France , and pro- ceeded with this design , till it ...
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... Italy , and returning . through Florence and Lyons , revisited Paris about 1628. He there soon rose into notice , and was engaged in various works by Cardinal Richelieu and other persons of distinction . The painter Vouet , who then ...
... Italy , and returning . through Florence and Lyons , revisited Paris about 1628. He there soon rose into notice , and was engaged in various works by Cardinal Richelieu and other persons of distinction . The painter Vouet , who then ...
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