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... wrote he to a friend when the Medici had banished him . He would pay any price for the privilege of returning to political activity , " even if I should have to roll stones . " From the pattern of the old Roman State , from the study of ...
... wrote he to a friend when the Medici had banished him . He would pay any price for the privilege of returning to political activity , " even if I should have to roll stones . " From the pattern of the old Roman State , from the study of ...
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... wrote the " Dialogues on Nature , " " The Queen and Goddess of Mortals , " in which he plainly derided the dogmas of religion and Christianity , though his irony was disguised by being expressed in the form of a dialogue . A century had ...
... wrote the " Dialogues on Nature , " " The Queen and Goddess of Mortals , " in which he plainly derided the dogmas of religion and Christianity , though his irony was disguised by being expressed in the form of a dialogue . A century had ...
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... wrote earned for himself the title of " the Herodotus of the Middle Ages , " at the time when the Crusades unsuccessfully ended , and Dante was beginning his career . The sea - route to India was then the great prob- lem of commerce in ...
... wrote earned for himself the title of " the Herodotus of the Middle Ages , " at the time when the Crusades unsuccessfully ended , and Dante was beginning his career . The sea - route to India was then the great prob- lem of commerce in ...
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... wrote an essay on the art of fencing . He played ; but what attracted him was , not the winnings , but the calculations by which he endeavored to avoid the chances of play . In music it was chiefly the mathematical relations of ...
... wrote an essay on the art of fencing . He played ; but what attracted him was , not the winnings , but the calculations by which he endeavored to avoid the chances of play . In music it was chiefly the mathematical relations of ...
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... wrote in Breda ( 1618 ) his " Compen dium Musicæ , " which he dedicated to his friend , with the earnest request that he keep it secret . This was first printed after his death ( 1650 ) . Probably he had at that time also written an ...
... wrote in Breda ( 1618 ) his " Compen dium Musicæ , " which he dedicated to his friend , with the earnest request that he keep it secret . This was first printed after his death ( 1650 ) . Probably he had at that time also written an ...
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