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Thomas Stone's avatar

This is very interesting. I have also had my share of difficulties accurately transcribing letters from the archives for research. Handwriting is difficult enough in modern languages where there is proper punctuation. Also, I wholeheartedly agree that letter writing is becoming lost art. I would love to see it make a comeback.

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Mary Anastasi's avatar

I know! I guess whenever there are spaces between the words in a manuscript we should be grateful, ha!

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Giordano Bruno's avatar

I just came to know of this vir doctus. I am looking forward to delving into his thinking and his world. Thank you so much for making this possible.

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Mary Anastasi's avatar

Thank you so much for reading!!

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TDFAM w/ Mak & H Bombz's avatar

That's so interesting it made you think of Cicero and his letters. It made me think of Meditations and how Marcus Aurelius would write them in Ancient Greek as an exercise in his journal. Thank you for this article, it was really fascinating!

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Mary Anastasi's avatar

Yes! I love that parallel. Ancient Greek seems to be one of the "languages of philosophy," in a way, and I think scholarship attributes that partly to the tradition of it all and partly to the fact that Greek is often perceived as being a more "copious" language than, e.g., Latin, and thus better for expressing big ideas.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for reading :)

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