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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 276. Chapters: 17th-century philanthropists, Benefactors of Yale University, Museum founders, Patrons of literature, Patrons of music, Patrons of schools, Philanthropist stubs, Lorenzo de' Medici, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alfred the Great, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis XII of France, Augustus Pitt Rivers, Gaius Maecenas, Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile, Alfonso V of Aragon, Hans Sloane, Peggy Guggenheim, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, List of philanthropists, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Louis Brandeis, James I of England, Nelson Rockefeller, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Elias Ashmole, Terrance Lindall, Nadezhda von Meck, Victoria, Princess Royal, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, Dominique de Menil, Anthony Minghella, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Marie Stopes, John de Menil, Gurusaday Dutt, Werner Reinhart, J. Paul Getty, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Charles Saatchi, Constantin Brancoveanu, Constantine VII, Julian Lloyd Webber, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Edward Martyn, Alexander Girard, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Howard Goodall, Mandell Berman, Ishar Bindra, Jeremy Frommer, Rufino Tamayo, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Edward E. Ayer, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Electra Havemeyer Webb, Francesco Barberini, Calouste Gulbenkian, Stephen R. Reed, Walter Potter, Aileen Osofsky, Winnaretta Singer, Henry Cole, Joe Berardo, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Owsley Brown Frazier, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Annie Montague Alexander, Michael Stern, Frank Oppenheimer, Thomas Kramer, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, Descendants of Cosimo I de Medici, John Harrison, August Heckscher, Francis Bourgeois, Walter Fink, Thomas Walsingham, Benedetto Pamphili, Gerald Lestz, Mary Quinn Sullivan, Sofia Adamson, W. G. Collingwood, Halsey Ives, Miles Lerman, Maria Kalergis, Shwe...