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thank you to @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s Inventing the Renaissance for introducing me to The War of the League of Cambrai, which, after a cursory read of its Wikipedia page, has to be one of the most insane political and military sequences in history

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Leo Milos

27 июл., 09:20

on a more serious note, the early passage about telling Machiavelli that Florence is a UNESCO World Heritage site and therefore literally the whole world has agreed not to go conquer it or burn it down, ever, is one of the most beautiful and hopeful passages about history I’ve ever read