Genius & Ink 🖌

Genius & Ink 🖌

Rescuing Books from British Pubs | 🍂 Footnotes #9

In this edition: Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Bocaccio, Carlo Rovelli, Victor Hugo and Peter Jackson.

Jun 23, 2024
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💭 Word of the week: Biblioclast - a person who mutilates or destroys books.

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In 1814, a poet from Orléans discovered that a wine cask had been packed with parchment. The parchment contained an unknown poem by Juvenal, the Roman satirist.1 If it was not for this intelligent and attentive poet from Orléans, we could have lost another masterpi…

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