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ghoul-haunted · 2 years ago

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thinking about ilardi writing about how english scholarship on the italian renaissance heavily favors florence, then rome and venice, and milan is largely neglected as an area of study (even in italy), and how I have read almost every english translation of machiavelli's writings available but there isn't a cohesive translation of everything he wrote, just favorite selections or ones that are most relevant to an interest, so for the LONGEST time I have been wondering if machiavelli and ascanio ever spoke to each other and not only is the answer YEAH THEY DID they spoke to each other on multiple occasions, biagio wrote to machiavelli on what ascanio was up to, and ascanio even gets a mention in something else machiavelli wrote

I am. feeling. something. right now.

#im feeling irritation. you write about machiavelli's political work but only when its relevant to florence?????????#SCREECHING #the incomplete portrait of machiavelli that exists for an english speaking audience continues to haunts me #anyway shout out to whoever it was that uploaded the tutte le opere di niccolo machiavelli pdf molto grazie i owe you my whole life #the answer was there the entire time but oh boy getting to that answer was an ordeal #i imagine these kinds of things are probably obvious to italian scholars on the subject but let me have this moment p l ease #anyway back to the ascanio biography i want to finish two more pages of it and then. time to watch shows for a bit

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