I greatly recommend Ada Palmer’s “Inventing the Renaissance” if you have a lot of time, mild history literacy, and an interest in the Renaissance even passing. She talks a lot about Nick the practical statesmen who just didn’t want to see Florence get repeatedly invaded, conquered, and looted.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo246135916.html

  • nagaram@startrek.websiteOP
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    2 months ago

    My brain is fried.

    I thought you said A.I. Bundy and I was trying so hard to see how this looked like A.I.