Carlo M. Cipolla Quotes:
Life: August 15, 1922 - September 5, 2000
Birthday: August 15
Death: September 5
The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
source: Carlo M. Cipolla (1966). “Guns, sails and empires: technological innovation and the early phases of European expansion, 1400-1700”
topic: Men, Confusion, Fancy, Westerners
