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Examples
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“I said the descent would be even tougher than the (San Fermo) climb,” said Gilbert, who had clearly done his homework.
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After a 20km flat stretch on the shores of Lake Como, leading into the final climb at San Fermo della Battagila, he rode alone to the finish.
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He doesn't give Ms. Langdon nearly enough credit, and his psychoanalytic reading of the impact of Fermo's death is taken, without acknowledgment, from Howard Hibbard's 1983 study.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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Mr. Graham-Dixon treats Fermo's death as a Freudian primal scene: The art of Caravaggio's maturity would be saturated in the ineradicable memory of night terrors.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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His father, Fermo, a builder and site architect, died of the plague just six years later.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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The newborn institution was the first of its kind in Rome; initially reserved for young Romans and young men from Fermo, it later extended hospitality to students from other regions of Italy and of different nationalities.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The newborn institution was the first of its kind in Rome; initially reserved for young Romans and young men from Fermo, it later extended hospitality to students from other regions of Italy and of different nationalities.
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Nor is it merely caused by the examples that he offers of success in acquiring or holding power — the descriptions of the massacre at Sinigaglia or the behavior of Agathocles or Oliverotto da Fermo are no more or less horrifying than similar stories in Tacitus or Guicciardini.
A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli Berlin, Isaiah 1971
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Professor of Rhetoric in Fermo, and had often attended the Count during his courtship, from Macerata to Fermo, but fifteen miles distant.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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He was one of my very particular friends, and had lately married the daughter of Signior Constantini, of Fermo, a lady no less famous for her good sense than her beauty.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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