Reumont, ALFRED VON

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 672–673

Reumont, ALFRED VON, a German historian, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle on 15th August 1808, and died there on 27th April 1887, having from 1829 to 1860 followed a diplomatic career, chiefly in Italy. His numberless works deal mainly with Italian history, and one of the best known, his Lorenzo de' Medici, appeared in English in 1876.

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