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... seen the formation of academies for the study and discussion of classical learning , and reconciliation of its values with tenets of Christian doctrine was sought . The most important of these groups of scholars was that at Florence ...
... seen the formation of academies for the study and discussion of classical learning , and reconciliation of its values with tenets of Christian doctrine was sought . The most important of these groups of scholars was that at Florence ...
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... seen in the picture for the December eclogue . Shepherd as episcopus was the bishop of the Christian Church , who carried a crook as emblem of his office . At several points the two uses of the metaphor confirmed one another . The ...
... seen in the picture for the December eclogue . Shepherd as episcopus was the bishop of the Christian Church , who carried a crook as emblem of his office . At several points the two uses of the metaphor confirmed one another . The ...
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... seen . Spenser made this one of poetry , the particular thus achieving universality . He endowed this year of his sovereign's reign with ' durance perpetual ' . Loe I have made a Calender for every yeare That steele in strength and time ...
... seen . Spenser made this one of poetry , the particular thus achieving universality . He endowed this year of his sovereign's reign with ' durance perpetual ' . Loe I have made a Calender for every yeare That steele in strength and time ...
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