How Florence’s weird republic worked

How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the Renaissance

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How the Medicis took over Florence

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Why it was so hard for Gutenberg to make any money off the printing press

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Why the industrial revolution didn’t happen in Italy

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The Library of Alexandria isn’t where most ancient books were lost

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The Inquisition accidentally invented peer review

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