The Expanding Horizons of Christopher Buondelmonti
Hilary Turner unrolls the life and achievements of a fifteenth-century Florentine humanist whose self-taught efforts at acquiring Greek and wandering the Aegean contributed to Renaissance mapmaking and a wider understanding of the classical world.
Moreover, if you can manage it with profit and honour, try, when you travel on business, to see a little of the world at the same time. Visit cities unknown to you, observe their customs, their governments and the habits obtaining in different countries. If you find you enjoy it, then do it for a year or two. In this way you will become more knowledgeable and more experienced in many things, and more wise. You will discover how to talk in society, you will be more highly regarded and so you will find yourself in a better position.
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