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Italian castles and country seats (1911)

Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878- · New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 122

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r age. After her there follows a series of lovelywomen who drew about them many of the artistsand learned men of their times, and whose husbandsseem to have been as wise and virtuous as they wereprosperous. Thus the great stronghold of Urbinobecame one of the centres of culture, and one of themost… … AND COUNTRY SEATS immortal Raphael, but to many other distinguishedand noted men. During the Renaissance a learned woman who wrotebooks, who could carry on intelligent discussion inseveral languages, was not called, as she often is by themen of to-day, a bluestocking. On the contrary, awoman was…

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