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LA SERENISSIMA

Apollo,496pp,£40

‘More than a labour of love, this is a work of adoration, ‘wrote Lauro Martines in the ‘Jonathan Keates thus joins the queue of 19th-century writers –, is unusual in a historian, but it can add to the pleasures of reading.

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