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835:"The dumbe diuine speaker, or: Dumbe speaker of Diuinity a learned and excellent treatise, in praise of silence: Shewing both the dignitie, and defectes of the tongue. Written in Italian, by Fra. Giacomo Affinati d'Acuto Romano. And truelie translated by A.M."
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on 12 November 1584. There is little doubt that this is the same production, two copies of which have been discovered, with the running title of
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