Ptolemaios II, Philadelphos, circa 308 BC - 246 BC, king of Egypt since 283 BC, full length, with his burning library of Alexandria, about the amount of books, woodcut by Petrarca Master (1532 - 1620) to "Von der Artzney bayder Glueck" (De remediis utriusque fortunae 1344/1366), by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), ,

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