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Les femmes bibliophiles; catalogue of a collection of books bound by famous binders for royal and distinguished ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie (1919)

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LES FEMMES BIBLIOPHILES Giovanni Battista Guarini, the Italian poet, was born at Ferrara in 1537. He was forsome years Professor of Belles-Lettres in the University of Ferrara. Later he was suc-cessively attached to the Courts of Ferrara, the Medici, and the House of Urbino. Hisfame rests…

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