Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry
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Venetian Art and Innovation in Venice
In venice, you have these moments in which people are very excited to claim newness. And then as things get more and more dodgy for them, they start to claim oldness. There's a myth of a trojan foundinga there are new histories written that assert kind of romanness as well as and roman status. In so many of these examples, things are claiming old and new at the same i or pretending that the new thing is old, or pretending that an old thing is new. Ye, that's a major thing as when innovation will be made under the pretence of its being a restoration of something old, ora, that was there before.
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