What Ada Palmer thinks about politics

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Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas, professor at the University of Chicago, author of Inventing the Renaissance and the Terra Ignota novels, and writer of the blog Ex Urbe.

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1. 16 Jun 2026

   Our readingBy Machiavelli's day the Guelph and Ghibelline split had no doctrinal content left in it: it meant only that those people murdered Uncle Tibalt.

   Their wordsThese are the two factions for which these parties fought originally. 300 years ago, these days what these factions actually mean is those jerks murdered Uncle Tibalt and we will never forgive them.

   ↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording