This series has eleven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Julius Caesar Dead.IntroductionThis is the story from the perspective
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Lorenzo de Medici Leaves Magnificent Florence
The end came when he was literally in his prime. Only forty-two years of age, he might reasonably have looked forward to many years of active work and
Reading The New Asia Observer
by Jack Le MoineOne of the many images from this website.From the latest happenings in things historical. This post On 14 March in Asian
The Renaissance Italian Wars
by Jack Le MoineItaly and its new-found wealth lures the rising power, France. Continuing our series on France's Wars. Did you ever notice
Leading and Following
Disraeli as Prime Minister in 1878Public domain image from Wikipedia.I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?- Benjamin
Lorenzo the Magnificent Fosters the Renaissance
"I dislike these Ultramontanes and barbarians beginning to interfere in Italy. We are so disunited and so deceitful that I believe that nothing but
Persian Massacre of Samos
Previously in Herodotus147. Then Otanes the Persian commander, seeing that the Persians had suffered greatly, purposely forgot the commands which
Lorenzo’s Diplomacy Amidst Conflicts
No sooner had the presence of the Turks at Otranto, in the extreme southeast of Italy, been rendered a thing of the past by the surrender of the
Lorenzo Becomes “the Magnificent”
The final decade of Lorenzo's life constituted the midsummer bloom of the Tuscan renaissance, the meridian of the intellectual and artistic supremacy