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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Eugene de Blaas 1843-1931 is in Painters.
On 24th July 1843 Eugene de Blaas was born at Albano near Rome, one of three artist sons of the Austrian artist Carl von Blaas and an Italian mother. His father became professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, from 1851 and later professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice from 1856.
1865. Eugene de Blaas (age 21). Portrait of Philip Richard Morris (age 28). Philip Morris and Eugen von Blaas shared lodgings in Rome in 1865; the painting is believed to be from this period.
On 10th February 1931 Eugene de Blaas (age 87) died.