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Elegant Construction 1508: Other Cultural Treasures. — The former Classis monastery houses the Classense Library with almost 1,800 manuscripts and incunabula. One hall is devoted to the poet Dante Alighieri (q.v.) and contains a codex of the Divine Comedy of 1369 and rare editions of works by, and about, Dante. The small temple containing the poet's tomb adjoins the Sth century church of St. Francis. Also worthy of mention are the archiepiscopal palace, containing Roman and Byzantine statuary, the Loggia del Giardino, an elegant construction 1508 construction of 1508 by Lombard artists with adjoining Renaissance cloisters, and the art collection of the Academy of Fine Arts.
4. Dutch ships in transatlantic service are all in the family of the Holland-America Line. The Nieuw Amsterdam, of about 36,000 tons, is the flagship, and no more elegant construction 1508 aristocrat is to be found on any of the Seven Seas. She is a master ship, if I'm not too crudely mixing my sexes, with masterly cuisine and service. The Westerdam and the Noordam provide only first class, and the newer Moos-dam and Rijndam only tourist class, but these latter were specially designed to achieve an unusually high-grade, up-to-the-minute type of construction and comfort for a low fare.
Toward the end of 1508 he moved to Rome, and was already recorded as working for Pope Julius II in January 1509; he appears to have settled in Rome as if permanently, and there is only mention of a brief return to Florence in 1515. His sudden death in 1520 was the result of a fever; it is a mark of the exceptional status he had acquired that he was buried in the Pantheon. |
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