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Swerve
How the World Became Modern
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Stephen Greenblatt


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This portrait of Poggio appears in the manuscript of his work 'De varietate furtunae.' the work, written when Poggio was sixty-eight years old, eloquently surveys the ruins of ancient Roman greatness.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini

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 Dinesh
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The survival of the discipline’s once celebrated poem was left to fortune. It was by chance that a copy of “On the Nature of Things” classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html made into the library of a handful of monasteries, places that had buried, seemingly forever, the Epicurean pursuit of pleasure. It was by chance that a monk laboring in scriptorium somewhere or other in the ninth century copied the poem before it moldered away forever. And it was not a chance that this copy escaped fire and flood and the teeth of time for some five hundred years until, one day in 1417 it came into the hands of the humanist who proudly called himself “Poggius Florentinus,” Poggio the Florentine. ~ Page 109
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THE SWERVE
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