Brewer's: Magliabecchi

The greatest bookworm that ever lived. He never forgot what he had once read, and could even turn at once to the exact page of any reference. He was the librarian of the Great Duke Cosmo III. (1633-1714).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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