Cosimo III. de’ Medici
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I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see [that] paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.
— Reported in Christopher Hibbet, The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (New York: William Morrow & Co, 1975) ch. 23, pp. 292–93




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