The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
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supposed to be in London—he was atlength arrested and conducted to the Abbey, from which,however, he effected his escape. He considered it aspeculiarly fortunate, that the persons then in power hadnot destroyed the magnificent house he had built in theBoulevard, opposite the Bastille. It was in… … Tiampagnt. ST. CHARLES BORROMEO, Charles Borromeo was born on the 2d. of October,1538, at the Castle of Arona, upon Lago Maggiore,in theMilanese. From his infancy he discovered a predilection,for the church, and the piety of Margaret de Medici, hismother, and the good example of his father, the…
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