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One thinks of filing as a necessary evil of modern life, but the need to maintain order among one’s papers is, of course, much older.  The term itself (from the Latin filum, ‘thread’) derives from the practice of keeping documents literally ‘on file’, i.e. together on a string or wire, much like a treasury tag […]

‘Humanism was introduced to Germany toward the end of the 15th century, one of its chief founders there being the poet Konrad Celtes.  To help his pupils learn the nineteen meters of Horace’s odes and epodes and other Latin metrical patterns, Celtes had one of his students, Petrus Tritonius (= Peter Treibenreif), set representative Latin […]