“... Latin by comparing them with those of his close contemporary Lorenzo Valla, who in his Life of Ferdinand of Aragon also found himself compelled to use modern terms for such things as the compass, the clock and the cannon. He could have shed another kind of light on Alberti’s experiments with Italian by comparing them with those of his friend and ...”

“... waters there is a fine cascade from one to the other, a thatch’d house, a round pavilion on a mount, [and] Shake Spear’s house, in which is a small statue of him, and his works in a glass case; and in all the houses and seats are books in hanging glass cases. Kirk established that ‘Shake Spear’s house’ – where presumably the countess and fellow ...”

“... the same threat. No one would stage a rebellion in her favour while there were male Yorkists to mount a challenge. Her early years are obscure. Her mother, the great heiress Isabel Neville, died in 1476 after giving birth to her fourth child; this last baby, like Isabel’s first child, did not live. Margaret would have been too young to remember her ...”