How to Live, Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An AnswerHow to Live, Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual. A nobleman, public official, and winegrower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before.
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