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Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell

Sarah Bakewell (About | Sarah Bakewell) has provided the reader with a really useful and enjoyable history of humanist freethinking over the past 700 years in this book. Be prepared to meet a large cast of characters who have contributed to the humanist outlook: Giovanni Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca, Leontinus Pilatus, Niccolo Niccoli, Poggio Bracciolini, Aldus

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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Published 47 years after the death of its author, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs offers itself as the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa’s alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, the work is beautifully translated by Richard Zenith in the Penguin Classics edition. Fernando Pessoa (Fernando Pessoa

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