On one of my many trips to Europe, I stayed in a small village northeast of Rome. While I was there, I came upon a small bookshop. Curious, I walked into the shop looking for old historical books. I started to talk to the owner about history and particularly the history of this region of Italy. He said he had several books, which he showed to me. I had some of those books in English, his were in Latin. We discussed the original documents that some of the authors used as background material. That...
