Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird β Ada Palmer
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 especially fascinating things I learned from the conversation and her excellent book, Inventing the Renaissance: https://a.co/d/03EjyByR πππππππ πππππ * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ada-palmer * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-cosplaying-ancient-rome-led-to-the-scientific/id1516093381?i=1000753675325 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/00AFjws53vNchZYgKGmFCU?si=08ae3a78c7dd4a4a ππππππππ – Jane Street is still waiting on someone to solve their…









