Thursday, August 05, 2021
Leisure Hours
Poggio Bracciolini, Letters IV.11 (to Niccolò Niccoli, September 3, 1430, tr. Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan):
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Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.
nos vacemus libellis nostris, qui nos ab istis molestiis abducent, et docebunt contemnere, quae plurimi appetunt.
