Understood 72 Languages
Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Cardinal Mezzofanti, who died in 1849, was probably the groatest inaster of languages that ever lived. He spoke thirt}' languages " with .rare excellence," spoke "fluently," nine ; " less perfectly," eleven; "imperfectly," eight ; " studied from books," fourteen -r total, seventy-two. He spoke, or understood, the peculiarities of thirty-six
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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier