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A02329 The historie of Guicciardin conteining the vvarres of Italie and other partes, continued for many yeares vnder sundry kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same, deuided into twenty bookes: and also the argumentes, vvith a table at large expressing the principall matters through the vvhole historie. Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton.; Historia d'Italia. English Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608. 1579 (1579) STC 12458A; ESTC S120755 1,623,689 1,210

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