The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Stephen Greenblatt. "In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. His discovery..... More
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