Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London [etc.] : T.N. Foulis · leaf 150
-dour with the most distinguished buildings ofthe Asiatics, Greeks, and Romans, and displaysmagnificence and truth in all its detail. In point of versatility Juan de Arfe was a kindof Spanish Leonardo. His book, De Varia Con-mensuracidn, etc., published in 1585, is dividedinto four parts, and… … This book is prefaced by the portrait of theauthor, given above. It shows us — what hereally was - a quiet, cultured, gentle - heartedmaa Indeed, while Arfe was studying anatomy 99 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF OLDER SPAIN at Salamanca, it gave him pain to lacerate thebodies even of the dead. I was witness,…
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