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If you're walking through the main concourse at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport and catch a whiff of bibliosmia — the smell of old books — chances are you've found Renaissance Books.

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never ...