 | American periodicals - 1861 - 810 pages
...agents, who sent him goods too precious to be resold even at a profit. " He corresponded," says Gibbon, " at once with Cairo and London, and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books were often imported by the same vessel." The Bodleian started wilh a collection which had cost Sir Thomas Bodley £10,000,... | |
 | E. B Fryde - History - 1984 - 258 pages
...Historical Thought (Cambridge, Mass., 1948), p. 91. 3 Ibid., p. 106, n. 116. without a title' and as 'the father of a line of princes whose name and age...almost synonymous with the restoration of learning'. Perhaps Gibbon was influenced by a remark of a highly reputed Italian historian of the sixteenth century,... | |
 | 1851 - 598 pages
...catalogue." 8. Laurentian Library, Florence. — This institution was commenced by Cosmo de Medici, the father of a line of princes whose name and age...almost synonymous with the restoration of learning. Naturally fond of literature, and anxious to save from destruction the precious remains of classical... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 776 pages
...Pope Nicholas the Fifth, was one of the greatest patrons of Greek literature, and Cosmo de Medicis ' corresponded at once with Cairo and London, and a cargo of ' Indian spices and Greek books, was often imported in the same ' vessel. His active missionary, Janus Lascaris, returned from ' the... | |
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The example of the Roman pontiff was preceded or imitated by a Florentine merchant, who governed the republic without arms and without a title. Cosmo of Medicis was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration... 
