Book description
The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts…
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Poggio Bracciolini’s On Avarice, written in the 1420s, marks the point where greed stopped being seen as the root of all evil and started to be seen as good.
When I first found this dialogue, I couldn’t get over how important it seemed and how completely forgotten it is. In more than two decades of covering markets and economics, I’d never come across it. Part of its obscurity is because it wasn’t translated into English until 1978, in a collection of Humanist writings called The Earthly Republic.
Yet On Avarice is a Rosetta Stone of modern greed; I…
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