That was a well informed piece, worth reading, but the final complaint is weak - so the book was just about its subject life and times and not piled on with lat

That was a well informed piece, worth reading, but the final complaint is weak - so the book was just about its subject life and times and not piled on with later centuries' consequential factoids ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_of_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_of_influence strikes again.