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16 June

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From one piece Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Machiavelli is the first person in the European tradition to suggest that two political parties could exist in one state at once and be viable.

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Machiavelli is the first person that we have ever in the European tradition to suggest that it could be viable for there to be more than one political party in a state at the same time.

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The papacy made Italy uniquely unstable in Europe, because each new pope inherited a precedent that he could overthrow any government he liked.

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And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to

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4 June 2020

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From one piece Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Plague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.

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when plague finally diminished in Europe, not because of any advance in medicine, but because fourteen generations of exposure gave natural selection time to work

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The plague did not pass through in 1348 and leave: it stayed endemic in Europe for nearly four centuries afterwards.

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in school they talk as if the plague swept through in 1348 then went away, but the bubonic plague did not go away, it remained endemic, like influenza or chickenpox today, a fact of life.

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The Renaissance and early modern period were not a better time to be alive than the Middle Ages they are said to have rescued Europe from.

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As a Renaissance historian, I feel it’s my job to shoulder the other half of the load by talking about what the Renaissance was like, confirming that our Medievalists are right, it wasn’t a better time to live than the Middle Ages

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