Sad to see that the historian Christopher Hibbert has died. Much of his life now reflects what I would like to achieve. He was a "gentleman scholar" in the classic sense. He had been an estate Agent but had written in his spare time - eventually he quit to write full time, anticipating a difficult life as a result. Yet it seems that his wife was very supportive and this enabled him to make his name.
We have a few books by him - his "biography" of Florence and his book about the Medici family stand out. I had been planning to examine these closely on matters of style of writing. Perhaps his death will inspire me to do this sooner rather than later.
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