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Codex on the Flight of Birds. - Famous folio with studies of classical-style architecture, list of expenses and prophecy on flight from Monte Cicero: "The great bird will take its first flight on the back of the great Cecero, filling the universe with stupor, filling all writings with its renown and bringing eternal glory to the nest in which it was born", c. 1505.
Codex on the Flight of Birds. - Famous folio with studies of classical-style architecture, list of expenses and prophecy on flight from Monte Cicero: "The great bird will take its first flight on the back of the great Cecero, filling the universe with stupor, filling all writings with its renown and bringing eternal glory to the nest in which it was born", c. 1505.
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Last update 26/feb/2008