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Francis Bacon, PR voice for the moderni , had both his feet in
the Middle Ages.
A strange wedding of the medieval Book of Nature and the new
book from movable types was conducted by Francis
Bacon.
Bacon’s Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton’s a trade union
organizer.
How far did the mass-produced page of print become a
substitute for auricular confession.
Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of
Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human.