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Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Generate transcript A transcript unlocks clips, previews, and editing. 177 15 27 Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years." Dwarkesh Patel Mar 06, 2026 177 15 27 Share Transcript Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago). Some espec

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