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observations and speculations on the wider universe

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Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by 'philosopher kings'

The story of this painting

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All His Spies Cooking with herbs & spices observations and speculations on theRobert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. Cecil stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from Elizabeth I to James I & VI, warding off