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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......

The Vanity Of Human Hopes

C allimachus ( fl. 4th century BC), admired by Catullus, Ovid and Propertius, was the author of some 800 books, including a 120-volume catalogue of the Greek writers whose works......