Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt.

This was the world Poggio entered and in which he hoped to thrive.  A position in the curia could serve as a step toward highly remunerative advancement in the Church hierarchy...

The Roman curia was, from a moral perspective, a notoriously perilous place...
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Poggio had established himself at the very center of what he called "the Bugiale," the Lie Factory.