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of the political overthrow of his patron Høegh-Guldberg. He therefore returned to Rome and took up permanent abode in that city. He had before this catalogued and exhaustively described
Cardinal Borgia's extensive collection of coins and Coptic manuscripts. The prelate now gave him strong support
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