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A day at the Colosseum in ancient Rome involved shows and games including, wait for it, a variety of public executions, each more gruesome than the last.

Ross King on the Laborious Process of Bookmaking in the 15th Century April 13, 2021 Producing new manuscripts of Cicero’s writings in the middle of the 15th century was clearly a more laborious and involved enterprise than combing the sleepy shelves of Franciscan libraries for neglected codices. The word “manuscript” comes from the Latin manu scriptus, “written by hand,” but any manuscript was the product of much more work than simply the writing of a single hand. It was a months-or ...