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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
As good as God, as clever as the devil As good as God, as clever as the devil Rodney Bolt "Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year-old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to be Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie - as Mary Ben… OL28600514W
The Librettist of Venice The Librettist of Venice Rodney Bolt "Born into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte would go on to become a Catholic, a priest, a poet, a passionate lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teac… OL3742129W