biography
| name: |
Symonds, John Addington
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pronunciation:
[simonz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1840–93)
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he became a fellow of Balliol College in 1862. His major work was History of the Italian Renaissance (7 vols, 1875–86), and he also wrote travel books, literary monographs, biographies, translations, and poetry. In 1877 he settled for health reasons in Davos, Switzerland. |
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