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The Inquisition's image as one centralised power is its own propaganda: it was scattered isolated men who could act only as far as a local government would fund them.

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Ada Palmer actually said

  1. Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
    The Inquisition, the Vatican, it controls everything, which is completely untrue and is propagandistic. The Inquisition is overseen by a whole bunch of isolated guys who are in isolated towns and it takes weeks or months to even communicate with the Vatican and they're making their own decisions.

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    ↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com

    16 Jun 2026 · video · 2h 08m · spoken · machine transcript

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