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Leabhar na nurnaightheadh gcomhchoidchiond (1608). Frontispice
This book, printed in the Gaelic language in 1608, came out some fifty years after the birth of the Irish printing press in 1551. It is a translation…
Paolo Giovio's Regionum et insularum atque locorum descriptiones (1578). Pp. 76-77
The divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon swerved the course of the Anglo-Spanish dynastic alliances. In this work, the papal historian Paolo Giovio, a contemporary, recounts the geography and history of England down to the Anglican schism.…