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... Italy , Florence , 1582. See INSTITUT NATIONAL Academy . Plot of ground near Athens , adorned with plane and olive trees , and containing a gymnasium in which taught Plato , and afterward his followers , hence called academic phi ...
... Italy , Florence , 1582. See INSTITUT NATIONAL Academy . Plot of ground near Athens , adorned with plane and olive trees , and containing a gymnasium in which taught Plato , and afterward his followers , hence called academic phi ...
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... Italy , and wrote painstaking and lucid de- scriptions of all the metallurgical processes then in use . His De Re Metallica , pub . 1546 , is the first systematic treatise on the mining and smelting of metalliferous minerals and ...
... Italy , and wrote painstaking and lucid de- scriptions of all the metallurgical processes then in use . His De Re Metallica , pub . 1546 , is the first systematic treatise on the mining and smelting of metalliferous minerals and ...
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... Italy ; stone of excellent quality for vases and other ornaments . That of the ancients was a firm , compact , somewhat opales- cent stalagmite ( see CALCITE ) , now sometimes called Egyptian or Oriental alabaster ; one of its best ...
... Italy ; stone of excellent quality for vases and other ornaments . That of the ancients was a firm , compact , somewhat opales- cent stalagmite ( see CALCITE ) , now sometimes called Egyptian or Oriental alabaster ; one of its best ...
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... Italian architect , paint- er , poet and musician , active in the Renaissance , and with Bru- nelleschi the founder ... Italy 568 , and founder of the Lombard dominion there ; killed for forcing his wife to drink from her father's skull ...
... Italian architect , paint- er , poet and musician , active in the Renaissance , and with Bru- nelleschi the founder ... Italy 568 , and founder of the Lombard dominion there ; killed for forcing his wife to drink from her father's skull ...
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... Italian poet , imprisoned by the Aus- trians for his revolutionary zeal , 1859. His chief poems are Le Prime Storie ... Italy , founded 1168 ; noted for its citadel , strengthened by Napoleon I. Pop . ab . 31,000 . Alethopteris . Genus ...
... Italian poet , imprisoned by the Aus- trians for his revolutionary zeal , 1859. His chief poems are Le Prime Storie ... Italy , founded 1168 ; noted for its citadel , strengthened by Napoleon I. Pop . ab . 31,000 . Alethopteris . Genus ...
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