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Over the course of 30 years, Durazzo collected more than 4,000 books, as well as many specimens of minerals, fossils, shells, physical and electrical devices, etc. In the 1780s
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Durazzo was born 3 March 1729 in Genoa, the son of
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Scienza e tecnica in
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