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  • G. Billano - vich, Petrarca letterato, Vol. I (Rome, 1947).

    HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

  • "Annali d'Italia" (anno 1459) speaks of him as "letterato insigne di questi tempi," and, as leaving behind him when he died on the

    Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

  • The _Royal Asiatic Society_ no doubt will soon find his mark, or cross, His Turfy Highness not being expected to be a _letterato_, in Cuneiform, wedge-shaped or arrow-headed characters upon the unbaked or sun-dried bricks thrown out of the famous Nineveh mound, so that at last Nimroud will have full justice done him by a grateful posterity.

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

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