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The Kauffmans are somewhat disappointing, less sexy than they are reputed to be, and a bit vain in their preciosity. Thus Poliziano espoused the ideal of the unity of learning based upon comprehensive knowledge of the classical tradition, but in practice this emerged as philological expertise leaning toward preciosity, an exclusive and elitist form of "Alexandrian" erudition that was made possible by his position as an in-house Medici intellectual. Lind says that he, like others, mourns what he sees as the contrast between the robustness of American vernacular culture and the preciosity of Atlantic seaboard literati and academics. |
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