…occurred in 1359. What has happened is, besides the black death the first phase of the hundred year war ended then Giotto is painting meister Eckhart is writing William of Ockham is formulating his philosophy, tamerlane, Chaucer, Wycliffe, so forth and so…

…died in the greatest demographic catastrophe that has ever befallen western civilization. It occurred right there. If that isn't enough, Giotto, Tamerlane, meister Eckhart and Wycliffe were all active but I think it's this demographic body blow to Europe that…

…me and Terrence, the shaman, spelled with an x, and the neuromancer how far does he like it Terrence here? Does he like it Giotto or it's nice of the tile, Terrence here, sort of like a Greco Christ. There was a young gaucho named Bruno who said about…

…Burckhardt. Burckhardt said the Renaissance was a quantum leap in world cultural history and then other people said: well, what about Giotto what about patatrio what about Boccaccio? And the truth is that whenever you look at two major milestones in history…

…issues. So I remember in the early days we would stack our Abrams books on Hieronymus Bosch and Piero Della Di Francesca and Giotto, and then the idea following Aldous Huxley was that you would imbibe the meaning of these great works of art behind the…

…history of western thought that is never discussed sufficiently. We are asked to believe that somewhere between the death of Giotto and the death of Michelangelo, European Human beings suddenly understood that things got smaller the further away from you they…