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...building dated from 1200 and had been the home of many a Grandee. Its famed library of 29,000 volumes, many of which were uncopied originals, its 15th century documents relat-nig to the House of Aragon, and its valuable paintings, among which an authentic Goya, were all destroyed. The loss was about...
Senor Yturralde is a native of Navarre, Spain, and a graduate of Sos in Aragon, He has travelled extensively through South America, where he visited the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Brazil. He came to the United States about a year and a half ago to learn English, and is now professor of Spanish in the Boston Academy of Languages, and secretary of El Club Espanol in Boston...
...These Medals rival in their artistic finish the finest coins of the ancients. The chief Italian and the chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals are, for the most part, of considerable size, ranging from 40 or 50 to nearly 200 millimetres in diameter...
President Eliot, who is visiting the exposition at Atlanta, was given a dinner on Tuesday night at the Aragon by fifty old Harvard graduates...
Other books in this collection may be mentioned: Documentos Ineditos para la Historia de Espana, 67 volumes; History of the 'Crown of Aragon, 40 volumes; Teatrum Urbium Italiae, 6 volumes containing valuable maps...