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A great many of the anecdotes we heard in school and university about famous figures probably aren't true, and that's particularly the case when we're talking about people who lived many centuries earlier. But where to to find out?
Now, maybe most people aren't curious about Petrarch and Laura, Heloise and Abelard, or William Tell. Still, I was, and Octave Delepierre devoted years in painstaking research trying to find out the truth.
He lays out what the situation most probably was and gives plausible explanations for the stories. It turns out that all of them are just tall tales, but…
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