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Falcao · 11-26-2011, 03:02 PM

Over five hundred years ago, a man named Petrarch climbed a mountain just to see the view. It was a new kind of thinking, it became the beginning of the Renaissance. The name of that mountain was Ventoux.
-- Frank Black, Millennium (Episode #34 - Luminary)

To-day [April 26, 1336] I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.
-- Francesco Petrarca: Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro (The Ascent of Mount Ventoux)

11-26-2011, 03:02 PM	#4887
Falcao Banned Posts: 1,344 Karma: 1028477047 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Nueva Andalucía Device: Sony PRS 650	When did the Renaissance begin? Over five hundred years ago, a man named Petrarch climbed a mountain just to see the view. It was a new kind of thinking, it became the beginning of the Renaissance. The name of that mountain was Ventoux. -- Frank Black, Millennium (Episode #34 - Luminary) To-day [April 26, 1336] I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer. -- Francesco Petrarca: Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro (The Ascent of Mount Ventoux)