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  • By the term Fabrica ecclesiae are to be understood not only the goods belonging to the Church but also the administrators of these goods.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Fiat's so-called Fabrica Italia project was billed as a plan to reinvigorate the company's presence in Italy by injecting billions into the auto maker's plants across the peninsula.

    Fiat Criticizes Italian Stock-Market Regulator Gilles Castonguay 2011

  • I was part of a group called Fabrica in Italy, and I did a mini-version of this project where I asked what people wanted to do before they die, and ... super-imposed answers on tombstones.

    Turnstyle: International Bucket-Lists Captured in Polaroids Turnstyle 2011

  • Those deals were spurred by the promise of a 20 billion-euro investment plan, called Fabrica Italia.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • In 1555 he brought out the second edition of the "Fabrica," an even more sumptuous volume than the first.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • -- Ed. The publication of the "Fabrica" shook the medical world to its foundations.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • In comparison with the sumptuous "Fabrica" of Vesalius this is a trifling booklet; but if not its equal in bulk or typographical beauty (it is in fact very poorly printed), it is its counterpart in physiology, and did for that science what Vesalius had done for anatomy, though not in the same way.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • In the figures and text of the "Fabrica" we have anatomy as we know it; and let us be honest and say, too, largely as Galen knew it.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • The worth of a book, as of a man, must be judged by results, and, so judged, the "Fabrica" is one of the great books of the world, and would come in any century of volumes which embraced the richest harvest of the human mind.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • Possibly it was only a temporary building, for he says in the second edition of the "Fabrica" that he had a splendid lecture theatre which accommodated more than five hundred spectators (p. 681).

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

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