Magliabechi, of Florence, the book-lover, was called “the universal index and living cyclopædia.” (1633–1714.) (See Woodfall.)
Bard of Memory. Samuel Rogers, author of Pleasures of Memory. (1762–1855.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.