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the very ideas the Bracciolini was looking to circulate around Europe . And circulate , he did . Ancient copies have passed the hands of Cicero , Julius Cesar , and Marcus Aurelius . Braccolini ’ s copies ( or copies of his copies ) have made their way into the hands , minds , and writings of Machiavelli , Molière , Shakespeare , and Thomas Jefferson .
It did not escape Professor Greenblatt ’ s notice that Bracciolini ’ s find re-purposed the ancient philosophy and led directly to the social , ideological , and political revolutions of the Italian and French Renaissance periods . These , in turn , ushered in the industrial and scientific revolutions to come . It did not escape my notice that it also paved the way for the molecular science revolution which formulated the very COVID-19 vaccine shot which allowed me to reach high onto my own bookshelf , to pull The Swerve out of its dusty refuge and to read about how The Nature of Things came to be . �

DREW

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