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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling 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...
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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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...
Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
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Die Wende: Wie die Renaissance begann [German]
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern [Chinese]
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