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... Gesta Romanorum ; ' literally , the Doings of the Romans . The meaning of this title will be understood from the following statement of War- ton , who , in a learned and amusing dissertation , has given a complete analysis of this ...
... Gesta Romanorum ; ' literally , the Doings of the Romans . The meaning of this title will be understood from the following statement of War- ton , who , in a learned and amusing dissertation , has given a complete analysis of this ...
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Charles MacFarlane, Charles Bucke. The first printed edition of the ' Gesta Romanorum ' is a folio volume without date , but it is supposed to have been executed before or about the year 1473. An Eng- lish translation of the work was one ...
Charles MacFarlane, Charles Bucke. The first printed edition of the ' Gesta Romanorum ' is a folio volume without date , but it is supposed to have been executed before or about the year 1473. An Eng- lish translation of the work was one ...
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... Gesta ( that of 1488 ) which Warton reviews , and which is more ... Romanorum ' to be Petrus Berchorius , or Pierre Bercheur , a native of ... Gesta Romanorum . ' They are thus described by Warton : " The Reductorium super Bibliam , ' in ...
... Gesta ( that of 1488 ) which Warton reviews , and which is more ... Romanorum ' to be Petrus Berchorius , or Pierre Bercheur , a native of ... Gesta Romanorum . ' They are thus described by Warton : " The Reductorium super Bibliam , ' in ...
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... Gesta Romanorum ' also for the use of his grammatical pupils . He adds , " Were there not many good reasons for that supposition , I should be induced to think that it might have been intended as a book of stories for the use of ...
... Gesta Romanorum ' also for the use of his grammatical pupils . He adds , " Were there not many good reasons for that supposition , I should be induced to think that it might have been intended as a book of stories for the use of ...
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