Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA

While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances

> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press

What’s that referring to?

Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.