At the beginning of the 15th century, Poggio Bracciolini, a professional scribe, produced a round, formal humanist book hand that, after refinement by a generation of scribes, served as the prototype for "roman" type fonts.
The author of the New York Times best-seller and landmark secular humanist book, Good Without God, will join us at our Fall kickoff social to speak about his secular moral ideals, and his vision for his new role as MIT's first humanist chaplain.
I would describe them as being humanist books as well as humorous ones.
He is the author of many books, most recently, "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible".
Last month, I wrote about the British philosopher A.C. Grayling's "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible".
By Macy Halford June 8, 2011 Last month, I wrote about the British philosopher A.C. Grayling's "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible".
At first, "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible" (Walker & Company, $35) looks like the Bible that Christians believe in, politicians take oaths on and the Gideons put in hotel rooms.
A. C. Grayling's "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible" is a marvel, a "distillation" of over a thousand authoritative texts, edited, redacted, and assembled in the manner of the (Holy) Bible, though by one man rather than many; written in a crisp, beautiful English; printed and bound like the precious object it clearly wishes to become.
By Macy Halford May 3, 2011 A. C. Grayling's "The Good Book: A Humanist Bible" is a marvel, a "distillation" of over a thousand authoritative texts, edited, redacted, and assembled in the manner of the (Holy) Bible, though by one man rather than many; written in a crisp, beautiful English; printed and bound like the precious object it clearly wishes to become.
It is exceptionally rare in the fifteenth century to find a humanist script being used in an English book.
An agent of that miracle was Poggio Bracciolini, or Poggio the Florentine, an accomplished fifteenth-century humanist and book hunter.
