Previously on HN, 17 points, 4 comments … and not bloody Twitter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858967

(Linking https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-the-medici-m...)

> Not the simple charity of the devout, nor the idle spending of the rich, but a calculated and ambitious investment in culture itself.

Seeing the science, commerce, and art in Florence is something to behold.