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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: figure called hysteron-proteron. I copy it because, being provisional, there are hopes of its growing out of childish defects, and the numbers in parentheses show what should have been the proper order of the lines: Giovanni (add Battista) Belzoni NATVRALISTA IDRAYLICO ARGHEOLOGO (4) IL RECONDITO EGITTO DIVINANDO 8VEL6 (3) ERCVLEO INFOCILATO (9) ALLE INGORDE SABBIE TOGLIEVA BERENICE (8) LA SECONDA PIHAMIDE (6) I SEPOLCRI D'lPSAMBVL (7) LA NECROPOLI P8AMETICA (sic) PENETRAVAf (o) SMOSSE LA MOLE DE MEMNONE FONDATO IL MVSEO BRITTANICO (sic) PARLd FAMA SI GRANDE CHE GLI 8TRANIERI STANCHI D'lNVIDIARE ONORARONO A PI ARDVE IMPRE8E 8CORREA LAFRICA IL 8IRIO ARDORE SPEN8E L'AVDACIA CREBBE LA GLORIA ' NATO IN PADOVA 1778 MORl A GATO D'AFRICA 1823. The first three lines are correct enough, barring the mutilated name. Belzoni, after preparing to become a monk, studied the elements of engineering at Rome, which, on the French occupation (1803), he exchanged for London. Hercules probably alludes to the fact, forgotten by his countrymen, that he supported himself by feats of strength at various theatres. He was a magnificent specimen of a man, strong as a Hercules, handsome as an Apollo; the various portraits taken about this time show the fine features which rarely, except in statues, distinguish the professional athlete. He had that divination, that archfeological instinct, which tiascitur, non fit: we see it now in MM. Mariette, Cesnola, and Scbliemann, whose name is Shalomon. After marrying, and passing nine years in England, Belzoni with his wife drifted to Egypt (June 9, 1815), then happy under the rule of Mohammed Ali the Great. He began, as an independent member, with setting up a hydraulic machine at the Shubrah Gardens, carryin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217751667 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217751660 |
| Weight | 2.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.53 In |
| List Price | $44.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 698 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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