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Cover illustration: Detail of the monument to George Con in Basilica Minore di San Lorenzo in Damaso. Rome. Photograph by the author
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Names: Santangeli, Ronald, author. | Con, George, c.1598-1640. Vita Mariae Stuartae Scotiae reginae.
Title: Mary Queen of Scots : the first biography, with the life and times of its author, George Con / by Ronald Santangeli.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] | Series: Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; vol.240 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023003173 (print) | LCCN 2023003174 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004529403 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004529410 (ebook) .
Subjects: LCSH: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587–Historiography. | Con,George, -1640. | Con, George, -1640. Vita Mariae Stuartae Scotiae reginae. | Europe–Biography.
Classification: LCC DA787.A1 C76 2023 (print) | LCC DA787.A1 (ebook) | DDC 941.105092 [B]–dc23/eng/20230214
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