Impoverished and freezing, Gérard de Nerval hanged himself near a cheap Paris doss-house after no one responded to his late-night-knock. (234)
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Nobody there.
Nobody answered.

Alexander Pushkin was an anti-Semite. (235)
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The Italian navigator has just landed in the New World. (236)
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Hegel had an illegitimate son. At his wedding, the boy’s mother showed up with a letter promising matrimony. And had to be bought off on the spot. (237)
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Protagonist is completely alone here now. (238)
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Protagonist has come to this place because he had no life back there at all. (239)
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102 Boulevard Haussman. (240)
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Even on the coolest evenings, when she kneels at the grave, the woman is bareheaded. (241)
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Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown works of Cicero, he 
wrote Cicero the news. (242)
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Ananda. Having been Buddha’s cousin, as well as his favorite pupil. (243)
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The Gulf of Spezia. (244)
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Masaccio died at twenty-seven. So suddenly that poison was not unsuspected, Vasari says. (245)
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The eulogy at Puccini’s funeral was delivered by Benito Mussolini. (246)
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