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One one of the more interesting aspects of Renaissance civilization is that its genius did not spring from the privileged, educated, and monied classes, but revealed itself in unlikely places often developing from seemingly unpropitous beginnings.
One one of the more interesting aspects of Renaissance civilization is that its genius did not spring from the privileged, educated, and monied classes, but revealed itself in unlikely places often developing from seemingly unpropitous beginnings.
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Leonardo da Vinci, whose illegitimate birth to a peasant
woman in an obscure fortified village in the foothills of Monte Alban could not
have presaged that he would become perhaps the greatest universal genius in the
history of mankind. It is always dangerous to deal in superlatives but if
Leonardo cannot be said to fit this criterion, it is difficult to suggest
another.
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