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A80393 Nissena, an excellent new romance: / written originally in Italian by Francesco Carmeni; and now Englished by an honorable anti-socordist. Carmeni, Francesco. 1652 (1652) Wing C599; Thomason E1234_2; ESTC R210434 67,079 161

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