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PODCAST 70: Harvard history professor James Hankins talks about his new book on Renaissance Italy

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9 Jan 2020 · 1 min read

Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong.

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