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Renaissance art was not made out of a surplus left over from war — it was diplomacy, and diplomacy was cheaper than the armies Florence could never afford.
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What Ada Palmer actually said
- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
They're using the art to do diplomacy and so in one sense if you're not doing the art you would have to spend more on the war. It's not that the art is being made from a surplus of the war.
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Watch from 0:59:49 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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