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> [“The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/the-black-death-was-a-faithful-visitor-to-florence-it-arrived-on/)

[Ross King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-king/)

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## More by Ross King

> [“A stylus was a metal-tipped drawing instrument widely used by artists before the invention of the pencil (graphite was not discovered until in 1504,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/a-stylus-was-a-metal-tipped-drawing-instrument-widely-used-by-artists/)

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> [“Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not? Justinian the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/quite-amazing-how-determined-kings-and-emperors-have-been-to-destroy/)

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> [“In fact, the figure in The Last Supper is not a woman: only the most partisan reading can place Mary Magdalene in the scene.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/in-fact-the-figure-in-the-last-supper-is-not-a-woman-only-the-most/)

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> [“…Because every ruler celebrated his conquests by setting torch to the nearest library. Did not Julius Caesar incinerate the scrolls in the great library…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/because-every-ruler-celebrated-his-conquests-by-setting-torch-to-the/)

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> [“It’s amazing — and poignant — to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn’t believe that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/it-s-amazing-and-poignant-to-think-that-leonardo-da-vinci-did/)

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> [“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/and-as-i-surveyed-the-clutter-of-his-study-i-was-pleased-to-see-that/)

[Ross King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-king/)

> [“That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/that-one-of-history-s-greatest-brains-struggled-with-amo-amas-amat/)

[Ross King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-king/)

> [“Buttresses were one of the prime structural features of Gothic architecture: by accommodating the thrust of the vaults transferred to them from strategic points,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/buttresses-were-one-of-the-prime-structural-features-of-gothic/)

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> [“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as this one—was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/there-was-nothing-so-dangerous-to-a-king-or-an-emperor-as-a-book-yes/)

[Ross King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-king/)

> [“Yes, a great library — a library as magnificent as this one — was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/yes-a-great-library-a-library-as-magnificent-as-this-one-was-a/)

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> [“While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/while-running-simple-errands-i-often-became-hopelessly-confused-in/)

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> [“The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/the-black-death-was-a-faithful-visitor-to-florence-it-arrived-on/)

[Ross King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-king/)

> [“At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. “Leonardo,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/at-times-leonardo-was-troubled-by-his-lack-of-achievement-as-a-young/)

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> [“The soft throb and glow roused in my breast by the gilt letters of four or five different languages winking at me from scores…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/the-soft-throb-and-glow-roused-in-my-breast-by-the-gilt-letters-of/)

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> [“Let no one read my principles who is not a mathematician,” he famously declared (less famous is the fact that the principles he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-king/let-no-one-read-my-principles-who-is-not-a-mathematician-he-famously/)

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