Encalhados numa ruga do contínuo espaço-tempo (42) – Hoje como há 600 anos

«History seems to repeat itself these days. The heated debate about Grexit from Europe may have deeper roots than one realizes. Here is what Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, humanist and future pope (1405-1464), wrote about the Council of Basel (c.1435) in his Commentaries: 

 “At that time the Greeks had promised the Council that they would come to Latin territory to discuss the question of union. Being a poor nation, with a talent for begging, they asked to be reimbursed for their expenses. To that end they demanded some 70,000 gold florins. In order to scrape together such a sum the Council promised plenary indulgences and remission of all their sins to those who would contribute money to the cause.”»

«A poor nation, with a talent for begging - Fifteenth-century echoes in a 21st-century Grexit», Marcello Simonetta no Politico