the only way to get reading matter was to find manuscripts to buy, beg, borrow, or transcribe| Winnie Lim
he also applied his own growing scholarship to each new discovery| Winnie Lim
For Petrarch, books are sociable| Winnie Lim
circulate them to anyone who cared to read them| Winnie Lim
I'm currently reading Humanely Possible by Sarah Blakewell – I liked her previous two books so it wasn't too difficult to pick this one up as well. She devoted quite a few pages about Petrarch. He liked collecting books, except that back then the printing press didn't exist, so he has to manually copy every...| Winnie Lim