Re: Byron died (19-4-1824)

On 20/04/2024 7:47 p.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:

   Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:
   > [...] The other Byron quote (too long to copy) is about meeting the
  > celebrated "hyperpolyglot", Cardinal Mezzofanti.
  >
  > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caspar_Mezzofanti
 Now that’s a Wikipedia article full of suspicion!
 

I thought it was quite an interesting account of the continuing skepticism about exactly how many languages he knew, and about the essential difficulty of putting numbers to such things.