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Shakespeare: Made Man by Geraint Jonathan

February 27, 2025November 26, 2024 literallystories2014

In the year 1588, twenty-four-year-old Michelangelo Florio Crollalanza, fearing for his limbs at the hands of the Inquisition, fled his native Sicily for the sceptred shores of England.

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