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Metrical but unrhymed; introduced in Italy ab. 1500, thence in England 1547, and later in Germany; familiar since its most illustrious example, Paradise Lost, 1667. Blanqui, JEROME ADOLPHE, 1798-1854. French economist. pupil of J. B. Say, prof. in Paris 1825. Hist. Political Economy in Europe, 1837-8.-His brother, Louis AUGUSTE, 1805-1881, a Communist leader, was long in prison.