Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
Catalogue
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A history of Italian literature / [Florence Trail].
Trail, Florence, 1854-1944.Date: [1914], ©1914- Books
Catholic attitudes to evolution in nineteenth-century Italian literature / Noor Giovanni Mazhar.
Mazhar, Noor Giovanni.Date: 1995- Books
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A sketch of the lives and writings of Dante and Petrarch. With some account of Italian and Latin literature in the fourteenth century.
Penrose, Thomas, 1769-1851.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Works of the author of The pursuits of literature, consisting of I. Pursuits of literature, A Satirical Poem In Four Dialogues. II. A translation of the passages from Greek, Latin, Italian, and French writers, quoted in The Prefaces And Notes To The pursuits of literature. III. The imperial epistle from Kien Long, Emperor Of China, to Geo.III. King Of Great Britain, &c. IV. The shade of Alex. Pope, Esq. on the banks of the Thames, a satirical poem, Occasioned Chiefly, But Not Wholly, BY The Residence Of Henry Grattan, At Twitnam, In Nov. 1798.
Mathias, Thomas James, 1754?-1835.Date: 1799- Books
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A catalogue of books, containing several scarce and curious articles in English literature; some Latin, French, Italian, &c. ... now selling ... this day, 1780, ... by Thomas King, ...
King, Thomas.Date: 1780]