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The pazza cosa may be the supper-party or the cornacchia.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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The pazza cosa may be the supper-party or the cornacchia.
XXX 1909
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The 'pazza cosa' may be the supper-party or the 'cornacchia.'
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
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The importance of this arch, from the point of view of the question treated in this chapter, rests not on its sculptured panels and medallions, -- spoils taken at random from older structures, from which the arch has received the nickname of Æsop's crow (_la cornacchia di
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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