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In this work, the author has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Poggio was a baffling figure to those who saw him pass. He was barely legible, and what mattered was what you belonged to or even whom you belonged to.
#2 The Roman world was a society of retainers and armed guards. The stranger, simply attired, rode in the company of a single companion. When they stopped at inns, the companion did the ordering, and when the master...
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