“manuscripts ever that I've worked with is a copy of Lucretius in Machiavelli's hand. He copied out the entire poem. This is in the Vatican library.”
Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer · Dwarkesh Podcast
De rerum natura
Lucretius
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“Any med student can read Lucretius' discussions of materialist information. When Poggio found it, there were two dozen people in the world who could read it.”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer · Dwarkesh Podcast