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...think I can give perfect satisfaction and be the equal of any man in architecture, in the design of buildings public and private, or to conduct water from one place to another. I can carry out sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay; and in painting can do any kind of work as well as any man, whoever he be. Moreover, the bronze horse could be made that will be to the...

...thinking and writing about the history and the cultural work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate...

...think, is new and I hope will not be repeated. I speak now not as a party man. I should like, if I could, to speak in the same sense of both parties, and, indeed, of all parties, in this country, when I say that to import into our domestic constitutional and Parliamentary struggles the opinion of foreign countries as to what they desire or wish in regard to the issue is a...