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I. Birth, boyhood, youth
at Florence, down to Lorenzo
de’ Medici’s
death. 1475-1492.
II. First visits to Bol...
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As he lay dying in a Roman hotel room in April 1893, John Addington Symonds had good reason to be proud of his literary life. He had left behind a long and impressive list of works: translations, biog...
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In his 1878 biography of the English Romantic poet, John Addington Symonds wrote that the young Percy Bysshe Shelley's intellect and aesthetic sensibilities "sustained him at a perilous height above t...
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The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
John Addington Symonds