Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 257
AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CLMLRY. FLOREN-TINE. WHILE MATERIAL VULGARITY PREVAILED THROUGHOUTCHRISTENDOM THERE WAS EVIDENTLY IN ITALY ANOTHER QUALITYWORTH RECOGNIZING. … SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: FRANCE To this end systems of taxation, each more sweepingthan the last, were devised; rich materials were soughtfor in every land; foreign designers and craftsmen werecalled in to do their utmost to satisfy the court demandsin every phase of vanitys creation. It is recorded in…
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