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Yeah I too thought that the renaissance was filled with godless heathens 😅

(I actually have no idea what percentage it is, audible I beg of you add this feature)
I would LOVE to have Ada Palmer as a teacher omg. LARPing the papal election during the war of the league of Cambrai just so that her students can understand the context of the Prince, incredible 💯

10/10 chapter, i lost count of the number of times i've said "what in fucking ao3 is even going on"

Wooo advancing at the rythm of a very slow snail. But making progress anyway.
Chapter 42: Michelangelo. Cracking up at the wistful way the narrator read "Michelangelo looooved naked men".

RIP Isabella d'Este you'd have loved AO3 and Mean Girls: the Musical.

Crazy how much a TV show, even a not very good one, can color the way you imagine historical figures. I cannot not see Holliday Grainger when Lucrezia Borgia is mentioned, or (the very attractive) François Arnaud as Cesare.

Florence, batting its renaissance eyelashes: oh I'm way too pretty to be invaded and looted

Should have listened to this while/before going to florence

Obsessed with the idea that we're constantly inventing new "good old days" for propaganda purposes.