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... Italy by the house of Medici . In literary talent he was immensely superior to Cosimo , but greatly his inferior in the conduct of the commercial affairs of the house . In politics he had nobler conceptions and higher ambitions , but he ...
... Italy by the house of Medici . In literary talent he was immensely superior to Cosimo , but greatly his inferior in the conduct of the commercial affairs of the house . In politics he had nobler conceptions and higher ambitions , but he ...
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... Italy by poetry . But his crowning superiority over every other Maecenas arming the whole nation , and expelling its foreign invaders . known to history lay in his active participation in the intellectual labours that he promoted ...
... Italy by poetry . But his crowning superiority over every other Maecenas arming the whole nation , and expelling its foreign invaders . known to history lay in his active participation in the intellectual labours that he promoted ...
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... Italy and the Church . The reign of Clement , on the contrary , was fatal to himself as well . His policy , like that of Leo X. , consisted in perpetual oscillation between France and Spain . By his endeavours to trick all the world ...
... Italy and the Church . The reign of Clement , on the contrary , was fatal to himself as well . His policy , like that of Leo X. , consisted in perpetual oscillation between France and Spain . By his endeavours to trick all the world ...
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... Italy and assumed the reins of government ; but , being of a very gentle Ferdinand II . disposition , he decided on sharing his power with the regents and his brothers , and arranged matters in such wise that each was almost independent ...
... Italy and assumed the reins of government ; but , being of a very gentle Ferdinand II . disposition , he decided on sharing his power with the regents and his brothers , and arranged matters in such wise that each was almost independent ...
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... Italy , Bologna of Arabian medicine . In the transitional period , when the Arabian and Padua were earliest distinguished for medical studies - the school began to influence European medicine , but before the Salerni- tans were ...
... Italy , Bologna of Arabian medicine . In the transitional period , when the Arabian and Padua were earliest distinguished for medical studies - the school began to influence European medicine , but before the Salerni- tans were ...
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