Poggio Bracciolini via Stephen Greenblatt
Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
"Pogius, rabula adeo indoctus ut etiam si vacaret obscoenitate, tamen indignus esset qui legeretur, adeo autem obscoenus ut etiam si doctissimus fuisset, tam esset a bonis viris reiiciendus." Erasmus, Opus Epistolarum, ed. Allen, Oxford 1906, I, p. 409 (letter to Christopher Fisher, 1505).
“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.”
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