Contents

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The Case of Anne Boleyn[13]
The Problem of Jeanne d’Arc[34]
The Empress Theodora[65]
The Emperor Charles V[88]
Don John of Austria, Cervantes, and Don Quixote [114]
Philip II; and the Arterio-Sclerosis of Statesmen[144]
Mr. and Mrs. Pepys[157]
Edward Gibbon[180]
Jean Paul Marat[191]
Napoleon I[204]
Benvenuto Cellini[226]
Death[232]