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Giuseppe Pecio : [sonnet to Voltaire]

'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him however than myself, - I do not see much in it'. [the sonnet follows]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      

Giuseppe Pecio : [sonnet to Voltaire]

'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in its kind, & I took a Copy more to please him however than myself, - I do not see much in it'. [the sonnet follows]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Sandys      

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