Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to … - Petrarch

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Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Petrarch

Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

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