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Literatus

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Lit`e`ra´tus    (lĭt`ė`rä´tŭs; lĭt`ė`rā´tŭs)
n.1.A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; - chiefly used in the plural.
Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed.
- De Quincey.


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Born in 1881 in a mountain village in the Apennines, not far from the marble quarries of Carrara, Enrico Pea was just the kind of Odyssean literatus who was bound to appeal to Ezra Pound.
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