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Excerpt from Melanthe; Or the Days of the Medici, Vol. 1: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century From the court of Constantinople, and in the seclusion of his villa bestowed his whole attention upon the study of literature and philosophy. There, in his quiet room, did he delight to bury himself, and surrounded by his books, - treasures in the collection of which he had spared neither trouble nor expense, he would forget his wrongs, and, elevated and enchanted by the glories of thought and image revealed by the poetry of the ancients, so abstract himself from the material world, that it was frequently difficult to recal his wandering mind to the more sober realities of earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.