Status Updates From Inventing the Renaissance: ...

It’s so crazy how the Italians only stopped trying to kill each other very very recently

“Where the Medici tyrants or-“ Yea kinda but like they still call him Lorenzo the Magnificent for a reason so let’s calm down

Also I read Hollingsworth’s book mentioned and she was not neutral 😬 like I know that part was specifically about Cosimo but that lady acted like she has personal beef with LtM which was really weird 😅

Ok what’s the argument that Dante is renaissance? Also if they’re saying modernity started in 1500s that feels crazy

"a war so complicated Wikipedia had to invent a new kind of table to catalogue all the betrayals"

side quest into history of atheism and relationship between belief and identity is going well

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Rolling!