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Too Close For Comfort

Mary Kenny S PYING ON I RELAND by Eunan O’Halpin OUP, £30, pp. 335, ISBN 97801909253296 I t was the late Lord Deedes who once succinctly explained to me what it was like to live......

A True Renaissance Man

Sarah Bradford MAGNIFICO by Miles J. Unger Simon & Schuster, £18.99, pp. 449, ISBN 9780743254342 ✆ £15.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 L orenzo de’ Medici was proverbially......