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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 666 — Chapter II · NATURAL SCIENCE IN ITALY.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

On the zoological garden at Palermo under Henry VI., see Otto de S. Blasio ad a. 1194. That of Henry I. of England in the park of Woodstock (Guliel. Malmes. p. 638) contained lions, leopards, camels, and a porcupine, all gifts of foreign princes.

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