History Abridged with Jack Rackam | The Fox of Florence | The Life & Times of Machiavelli (ft. Blue from OSP!) @JackRackam | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Happy Black Friday, U.S.A.! Have a nearly eight minute long video for the same everyday low low price. And all you other countries, you can watch it too I guess. Turns out the method to Machiavelli's madness was mollifying mad Medici after a mountain of madness above the Mediterranean. Special thanks to Blue for lending me his expertise on the subject and coming in to talk about Machiavelli's writing. No discussion on Machiavelli would be complete without it, and chances are I wouldn't have been able to do it without him. That means don't expect any more videos in excess of five and a half minutes, ya hear?

Footnotes:

2:20 The link in question: youtube.com/watch?v=xZROmiEyH6k I'm telling you, half the research for this video was watching OSP videos. Bare in mind though that the reputation of the Borgia might be a result of history being written by the victors. Consider this article a grain of salt: historytoday.com/alexander-lee/were-borgias-really-so-bad

3:15 Actually it was a mix of plays, poems, and novels, but you get the idea.

Music in order of appearance:

Kevin Macleod - Lift Motif
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Kevin Macleod - Backbay Lounge
Kevin Macleod - Deadly Roulette
Kevin Macleod - Hammock Fight
Jesper Kyd - Home in Florence
Kevin Macleod - Local Forecast

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