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Talbot: Notebook (‘Liguria’).
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CMV33146
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The British Library
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Add MS 88942/1/45
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Italian
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Brief Summary:
Notes by Talbot’s half sister Horatia Feilding all taken in Italian in Liguria in Genova in 1824, with translations (e.g. from Voltaire) into Italian and extracts of literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and biblical texts.
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Bible, History, Italian, Literature, Philosophy, Science, Translation
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Notebook
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Physical Description
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Ink on paper
Extent:
20 ff.
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195 x 160 mm
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2
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There is a note in a second hand on the back cover beneath a translation of ‘tradotto da [?] Genovada Carolina’ reading ‘Carolina Augusta’.
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Genova, Genoa, Italy
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