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A31541 Select novels the first six written in Spanish by Miguel Cervantes Sayavedra author of that famous history Don Quixote de la Mancha ; the other by Francis Petrarch an eminent Italian poet and one of the first restorers of learning ; all translated from the originals by Dr. Walter Pope. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Historia Griseldis. 1694 (1694) Wing C1779; ESTC R37542 167,491 368

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