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Chapter VIII Lorenzo, the Magnificent, part 2

In The Medici, Volume 1

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

G. F. Young

This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…

Dorothea Dix

In A Group of Famous Women

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Edith Horton

It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question h…

WHITIE

In The White Czar: A Story of a Polar Bear

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Clarence Hawkes

The land of the Eskimo is the most inhospitable desolate portion of Mother Earth inhabited by man. Well has the Eskimo need of his cheerful …

Life of Domenico Beccafumi of Siena, Painter and Master of Casting

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

Chapter VI. Florence (II): Machiavelli by L. Arthur Burd (part 3)

In The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 01, The Renaissance

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Various

The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Joseph Bramah

In Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Year…

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William Walker, Jr.

The early nineteenth century was a period of great discovery and advancements in science. Here we have a snapshot of some of those whose nam…

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