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grand duke
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1. a prince or nobleman who rules a territory, state, or principality
2. a son or a male descendant in the male line of a Russian tsar
3. a medieval Russian prince who ruled over other princes


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27) Meanwhile, in Florence, when the Ministry of the Grandduchy of Tuscany received word in 1854 that over the previous 16 months 133 women had reported contracting syphilis from nursing babies they had been given by the Florentine foundling home, the Minister declared that if the Grandduke had known that this would be the result, he would never have recommended sending the foundlings out to the women of the countryside.
Syphilis, foundlings, and wetnurses in nineteenth-century Italy by Kertzer, David I. / Journal of Social History
In the following years it was revised and expanded - with the advice of historians and litterati in Vasari's circle at the court of the granddukes of Tuscany - for publication in 1568.
Giorgio Vasari: Art and History by Ackerman, James A. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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