A Universal Biographical Dictionary Containing the Lives of the Most Celebratd Characters of Every Age and Nation: ... to which is Added, a Dictionary of the Principal Divinities and Heroes of Grecian and Roman Mythology, and a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living CharactersS. Andrus and Son, 1898 - 444 páginas |
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... duke of , a Scotch nobleman , in the service of Francis I. , king of France , in- trusted with an army of 10,000 men , to attack Naples ; he died 1536 . ALBATEGNIUS , an Arabian astronomer , who died 929 ; he wrote a treatise on the ...
... duke of , a Scotch nobleman , in the service of Francis I. , king of France , in- trusted with an army of 10,000 men , to attack Naples ; he died 1536 . ALBATEGNIUS , an Arabian astronomer , who died 929 ; he wrote a treatise on the ...
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... duke of Prussia , which he held as a fief of Po- land , died 1568 . ALBERT , Erasmus , a native of Frankfort , assisted Luther in the reformation . ALBERT KRANTZ , author of the history of Saxony and the Vandals , & c . , died 1517 ...
... duke of Prussia , which he held as a fief of Po- land , died 1568 . ALBERT , Erasmus , a native of Frankfort , assisted Luther in the reformation . ALBERT KRANTZ , author of the history of Saxony and the Vandals , & c . , died 1517 ...
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... duke of Flo- rence in 1530 , was a man of dissolute and cruel manners , who owed his elevation to intrigue . He was murdered by a relation . ALEXANDER , Farnese , duke of Parma . distinguished himself in the 16th century by his military ...
... duke of Flo- rence in 1530 , was a man of dissolute and cruel manners , who owed his elevation to intrigue . He was murdered by a relation . ALEXANDER , Farnese , duke of Parma . distinguished himself in the 16th century by his military ...
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... duke of Savoy , a brave and charitable prince , whose subjects surnamed him the Blessed ; he died 1472 . AMADEUS , a Franciscan monk in Portugal , who pretended to some mystical revelations at Rome , died 1482 . ALTON , Richard Count d ...
... duke of Savoy , a brave and charitable prince , whose subjects surnamed him the Blessed ; he died 1472 . AMADEUS , a Franciscan monk in Portugal , who pretended to some mystical revelations at Rome , died 1482 . ALTON , Richard Count d ...
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... duke of Caraffa . He ordered many gibbets and wheels for torture to be set up , and was followed by ten or twelve hangmen to execute his orders . After this sedition had continued , with all kinds of barbarity , for ten days , it was ...
... duke of Caraffa . He ordered many gibbets and wheels for torture to be set up , and was followed by ten or twelve hangmen to execute his orders . After this sedition had continued , with all kinds of barbarity , for ten days , it was ...
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