Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry
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I've Just Found Another Reason Why, You Know, Mathias Corvine Was Illegitimate
I've just found another reason why, you know, mathias corvinus, the raven king, king of hungary, or some person that i'd never heard of. The most recent biography in english of the medici popes, leo the tenth and clement the seventh, is eighteenninety four ish. And my favorite line from its bit on leo is the legitimate a pe sessor was. If heu hadn't been illegitimate, everything was fine. That's amazing. Ar aamazing argument about contingency, which, along with legitimacy, is one of the, one of the things i like to think about.
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