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If you are interested in fictional 1600's, you may wish to try 1632, an alternative history series by Eric Flint. As the series continues, some of the stories revolve around musicians and artists, some of the popes appear as characters, and at least three books are set in Italy.
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I definitely think everyone should read
It's about WWII, and I definitely knew nothing about the town of Lidice, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) before I read it.
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Signora da Vinci is actually set in the 1400s. And would you say that you think everyone should read it, hmmm??
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It's about WWII, and I definitely knew nothing about the town of Lidice, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) before I ..."
I read that! I didn't love it though - maybe because I didn't really understand it. All I remember was that they freaked out because of a potential bombing and hid in the basement and ate canned food and listened to the radio.
Yes, that was in the end. The beginning is much more powerful. My friends and I who read it were shocked that they wiped out a whole town because they thought that there might be a link to an assassination. Plus the whole kidnapping and brainwashing children thing was awful.
The Count of Monte Cristo, definitely. Also the Divine Comedy, though I have yet to do so. ^_^
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The Republic by Plato
Mainly because of the power it has to uproot you from your own context in society and time in history through its transcendental philosophy, if you understand it.
Not so much about hard facts but modes of thinking and how they impact who you are, who you become and how you perceive the world.
For me, reading this properly helps one see modern thought (including its pervading influence in science and history) in its own place, and not as something that we got right. To understand that modern conceptions of reality are, truly, just one way of interpreting data.
To understand that scientific findings are still framed as convenient given the philosophy and world view of the individual scientist, that history is still largely falsified for the convenience of certain victorious parties. That today still, consensus is at the service of the status quo, not of truth, and that its search is ultimately a personal affair.
Mainly because of the power it has to uproot you from your own context in society and time in history through its transcendental philosophy, if you understand it.
Not so much about hard facts but modes of thinking and how they impact who you are, who you become and how you perceive the world.
For me, reading this properly helps one see modern thought (including its pervading influence in science and history) in its own place, and not as something that we got right. To understand that modern conceptions of reality are, truly, just one way of interpreting data.
To understand that scientific findings are still framed as convenient given the philosophy and world view of the individual scientist, that history is still largely falsified for the convenience of certain victorious parties. That today still, consensus is at the service of the status quo, not of truth, and that its search is ultimately a personal affair.
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