The Directions survey finds printers expect trading conditions to improve. In old Italian saying from the pre-Renaissance era assures us that "the gloom of the world is but a shadow and behind it, within our reach, is joy". Indeed, there was much to be gloomy about in 14th-century Italy. It was a land of famine and disease, of war and revolt. Joy was, however, within its reach and with the advent of the Renaissance, came untold riches, the rise of humanism and spectacular cultural achievements.
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