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The bookseller and biographer Vespasiano contrasted the “great darkness” in which ignorant people live with the enlightenment or illumination that writers bring to the world. Echoing the remarks Petrarch had once made to Boccaccio, he added that ignorance is sometimes considered holy, but as a virtue it is overrated. It may even be the source of worldly evil, he suggested.
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
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