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Holland, Philemon

Index: El Aleph, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 625.
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British physician, writer and trans- lator, 1552-1637.

Fishburn and Hughes: "An English translator of the classics known as the 'Translator-General'. His rendering of Pliny's Historia Naturalis, the first in English, is noted for its exuberance and poetic resonance and is believed to have been used by Shakespeare." (92)