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~62% in — The papacy during the High Renaissance: political, human, compromised, yet culturally transformative—humanism advancing through the Church as much as outside it.
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~62% in — Power and personality at the papacy’s peak: Alexander VI and Julius II reveal different temperaments but identical structural roles; Italy’s fragmentation contrasts with the rise of centralized nation-states.
