The Great Conversation

The Renaissance and the Skeptical Crisis

Philologists unmask a forged empire, Machiavelli teaches princes how not to be good, and Montaigne, reading a newly printed Greek skeptic, asks the question that will haunt the moderns: what do I know?

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