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Also Known As feudal system • féodalité • feudality

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Blue Italian postage stamp featuring a portrait of Giambattista Vico, with his name, birth and death years, and the denomination 50 lire.
Engraving by John Kay of Adam Smith standing in profile beside a round table with books and papers, wearing 18th-century attire with a tricorn hat and holding a cane.
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