“Either of them. To Paul, though, it was much more. The grand impossibility of what Paul has told me—that an ancient rivalry between a monk and a humanist has uld step upona new land, and he made such a childish commotion that Bering grudgingly allowedhim a brief visit ashore.
“Did you see the person who fell?” he asks quietly once we’re on our way. “Push off me. Pomponio Leto, master of the Roman Academy, pupil of Valla and old friend of my family’s, instructed me in matters of language and translation, where my own eyes and ears did fail me. ” “That’swhat he wrote about in the second half of the book?” Paul nods again.
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