The Moment a Renaissance Scholar Decided Centuries Were Worthless
Sometime around 1330, the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch looked back at the thousand years between the fall of Rome and his own era and reached for a metaphor. What he saw — or chose to see — was darkness. A long, suffocating interval between the brilliance of antiquity and the reawakening...
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