(Q1310)
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In the Angle of the Procurazie, which is next the (a) Campanile, you ascend to the public Library, in which are abundance of rare Manuscripts, in the Oriental and Greek Languages especially. The first Benefactor to it was Petrarch the Poet; but Cardinal Bessarion, a Native of Morea, and a Man no less famous for his Learning [...] carry'd it to its present Degree of Perfection (American English)
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