One thing that I found interesting about chapter 9 is how Poggio worded what he had written to Niccoli in order to get On the Nature of Things back. In the text it states “You have now kept the Lucretius for fourteen years and Asconius Pedianus too … .Does it seem just to you that, …
One thing that I found interesting while reading chapter 8 was one of the elements that constituted the Lucretian challenge was that humans are not unique. This is interesting to me because there are thousands of people who claim we are all unique in our own ways but this states otherwise. For example the text …
One interesting thing that I found while reading this chapter was how Cossa and the schism between the church had tried to resolve things. In the text it states “Each combined attempts to seize the moral high ground with thuggish tactics. Each had powerful allies but also strategic weaknesses that made achieving unity through military …
One thing from this chapter that I found interesting was the idea of wealth. “Times have changed, and now riches, so essential for any important enterprise, are in order for whoever can acquire them. Priests are allowed to amass all the wealth they want; they only have to be poor in spirit. To want high …
While reading Chapter 5 of “The Swerve”, one of the things that I had found interesting was how Petrarch wrote to ancient writers. “… he wrote with manic energy. And he responded to the ancient writers as if they were somehow a living part of this network, intimate friends, and family with whom he could …
During this assignment, we had to make a 1 minute podcast based on anything we like. I did my podcast on the lunch here at UNE. I learned how to adjust audio levels to fit in with other audio clips I had recorded. I had also learned how to adjust the audio levels when the …
One important quote from the chapter that interested me was “The greatest good is to live in accordance with nature, and to achieve pleasure without fear.” This quote in particular interested me because I think that the quote influences the belief of how important human values are and how it encourages individuals to seek knowledge …
One thing that I had found interesting while reading Chapter 3 was the questions that were written in the dialogues Cicero and others. “The dialogues Cicero and others wrote were not transcriptions of real exchanges, though the characters in them were real, but they were of idealized versions of conversations that undoubtedly occurred in places …
While looking through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I noticed that there were more job opportunities than I originally thought for a communications major. I think the one that stood out the most was that people with communications degrees can go into early childhood education, which is something I did not know before. When people …
One thing that I found interesting was the curses. On page 30, it states “On occasion monasteries tried to secure their possession by frightening their precious manuscripts with curses”. This was interesting to me because if there were manuscripts that had curses on them nowadays, that wouldn’t stop anyone from taking something like that. Another …
