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Butterfinger
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Mehso-so

I admit that I confused this family with the Borgia family. They were very similar, in fact, so I don't feel too foolish. They started as bankers in Florence. It seemed to me that every other generation was patrons to the arts, while the other generations were lazy and/or violent. The family was often fighting the papacy except when they had a son or nephew as a pope. I'm glad I read it. I learned more about Italy's history before unification.

Crazeedi Would you definitely recommend? I need a good book to immerse myself and I love reading about this period 2d
Butterfinger @crazeedi I can't honestly recommend it unless you want to take notes. All the names that the family was fighting ran over each other, and I would forget why they're fighting. It was interesting to learn the different personalities and how each one added to art and architecture. 2d
Butterfinger #FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks my Italy book for this month. 1d
Crazeedi @Butterfinger thanks for the info!! 17h
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DieAReader
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Pickpick
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Chittavrtti
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Anaava
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Pickpick

Working my way through The Hinges of History series. It‘s quickly becoming one of my favorite nonfiction history books.

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BethM
Blood and Beauty | Sarah Dunant
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Had a sleepover with my friend last night and spent the morning at the AAUW book sale. Got several for Wes and came home with these three for me at $1 each :)

Ruthiella Can‘t beat that price! 👍 3mo
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Born.A.Reader
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Forgot I had this one when I went hunting for #reptile in my TBR stacks. I'm sure ancient Rome was full of 🐍 both metaphorically and literally. #Coverstories
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 3mo
Eggs 🦎 💚 🐍 3mo
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RowReads1
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries | Andrew Hui, Associate Professor of Humanities (Literature) Andrew Hui
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🙋🏻‍♀️

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Rome753
Discourses on Livy | Niccol Machiavelli
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"Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth."
-Niccolo Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy"

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dabbe
The complete poems | Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ronald A. Rebholz
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TheSpineView 💜💜💜 11mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 🩵💙🩵 11mo
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