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Poggio Bracciolini is the most important man you’ve never heard of.

The Swerve coverOne cold winter night in 1417, the clean-shaven, slender young man pulled a manuscript off a dusty library shelf and could barely believe his eyes. In his hands was a thousand-year-old text that changed the course…

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