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- Ada's Fiction
- Terra Ignota AMA Questions: Meatmakers and Kitchen Trees
- Terra Ignota AMA Questions: Craft of Writing & Performer Casting
- Gender in Terra Ignota (Queership Repost)
- Perhaps the Stars Essay Roundup plus AMA best-of: Religion & Utopia in Terra Ignota
- From Ada’s AMA: Minutiae Ignota
- From Ada’s AMA: Terra Ignota, Bash’es & Hives
- From Ada’a AMA: Terra Ignota, Language, Gender & Music
- From Ada’s AMA: Life
- From Ada’s AMA: Writing
- From Ada’s AMA: What’s the most effective way for someone today to encourage space exploration?
- The Key to the Kingdom, or How I Sold Too Like the Lightning
- Seven Surrenders is Out: New Links Post
- Ada's Personal News
- Terra Ignota Nominated for Best Series Hugo!
- Worldcon Schedule & Terra Ignota Calendar
- Perhaps the Stars Essay Roundup plus AMA best-of: Religion & Utopia in Terra Ignota
- Medical Leave Reflections plus Empathy Sphere Essay
- 5 News Items: Podcast, Online Teaching, Gene Wolfe, Audiobooks, & Perhaps the Stars
- Self-Care & Healthy Work Habits for the Pandemic
- From Ada’s AMA: Minutiae Ignota
- From Ada’s AMA: Terra Ignota, Bash’es & Hives
- From Ada’a AMA: Terra Ignota, Language, Gender & Music
- From Ada’s AMA: Life
- Campbell Award & Invisible Disability
- Seven Surrenders is Out: New Links Post
- Four Updates
- Novel Launch Blog Entries, plus Useful Plants
- Plato essay, #historypix, and the excessively exciting life of Pope Urban VIII
- Thoughts on the Cover for “Too Like the Lightning”
- Pluto Ahoy! Also, New Music Kickstarter & Photos of Greenland.
- Machiavelli and Intellectual Technology, plus Shakespeare & Summer Updates
- News: University of Chicago, Lucretius Book, Train Tour
- Hello, Everyone: I’m Ada Palmer.
- A Brief Holiday Hello from Italy
- Fandom
- Tools for Thinking About Censorship
- Strange Horizons Column & New Essay Published
- Uncanny Censorship Essay & Writing POV
- 2018 Campbell Speech, How New Authors Expand Fields (+Censorship, Manga)
- From Ada’s AMA: Minutiae Ignota
- From Ada’s AMA: Terra Ignota, Bash’es & Hives
- From Ada’a AMA: Terra Ignota, Language, Gender & Music
- From Ada’s AMA: Life
- From Ada’s AMA: Writing
- Discontinuity and Empathy: a non-review of “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys.
- The Thor 2 Gloat-A-Thon (an unbiased review of Thor 2: The Dark World)
- Background of Marvel’s “Thor: the Dark World” (an unbiased recap)
- “The Borgias” vs. “Borgia: Faith and Fear” (accuracy in historical fiction)
- Stark’s Metamorphosis (an Unbiased Review of Iron Man 3)
- You Can Shoot a Laser THROUGH a Clear Blimp! (Skyfall movie review)
- An Unbiased Review of the Marvel “Avengers” Movie
- An Unbiased Review of the Marvel “Thor” Movie (Begins Unbiased Reviews Series)
- Florence
- Why I Teach Machiavelli Through His Letters
- San Marco: The Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence
- Intellectual Technology—a Promoted Comment
- Machiavelli III: Rise of the Borgias
- Machiavelli II: The Three Branches of Ethics
- Machiavelli I (addendum): thoughts on this style of presenting history
- Sbandieratori – Florentine Flag Tossers
- Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
- Florence: Overview of Churches and Monuments
- Florence: Overview of Major Museums
- Holiday Greetings from Pope Leo X
- Dusk at the Palazzo Vecchio
- My front door – Florence at dawn
- A Flowering of Festivals
- The Feast of San Lorenzo
- My Fight with Florence
- Florence Reviews
- A Food Map of Florence
- Florence: Overview of Churches and Monuments
- Florence: Overview of Major Museums
- Food
- How to Spot Good Gelato from 15 Feet Away
- A Food Map of Florence
- Real Mozzarella
- Relax. Have a gelato.
- Cheater’s Italian Cooking
- “Get your piping hot tripe!”
- A Simple Breakfast
- Guest Posts
- History
- Tools for Thinking About Censorship
- All People Are Created Educable, a Vital Oft-Forgotten Tenet of Modern Democracy
- Barbie Career of the Year as a Window on Centrist Feminism
- Online talks: Apocalyptic Renaissance, Teaching Power in History, Inquisition, Rare Books
- Who We Think Has the Power to Change the World? (transcript)
- Why I Teach Machiavelli Through His Letters
- Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages
- Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerful
- Milton’s Arguments Against EU Copyright Directive Article 11 and Article 13
- 2018 Campbell Speech, How New Authors Expand Fields (+Censorship, Manga)
- Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning
- Promoted Comment: The Scary Atrocious Thomas Hobbes
- On Progress and Historical Change
- San Marco: The Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence
- Plato essay, #historypix, and the excessively exciting life of Pope Urban VIII
- Sketches of a History of Skepticism Part 4: the Renaissance, Montaigne and a touch of Voltaire
- Sketches of a History of Skepticism Part 3: Cicero through Scholasticism
- Intellectual Technology—a Promoted Comment
- Machiavelli and Intellectual Technology, plus Shakespeare & Summer Updates
- Discontinuity and Empathy: a non-review of “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys.
- Sketches of a History of Skepticism, Part II: Classical Hybrids
- Sketches of a History of Skepticism, Part I: Classical Eudaimonia
- Update; Lectures on the 17th Century and Enlightenment
- Comments Re-enabled; RSS & Mailing List; Noon Cannon
- On Crimes and Punishments and Beccaria
- A Chance to Support Ex Urbe; Military Compass
- Machiavelli V: Why We Keep Asking “Was Machiavelli an Atheist?”
- Machiavelli IV: Julius II, the Warrior Pope
- Machiavelli III: Rise of the Borgias
- Machiavelli II: The Three Branches of Ethics
- Machiavelli I (addendum): thoughts on this style of presenting history
- Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
- A Passion for Porphyry
- Good morning, Giotto!
- Vasari, the Palazzo Vecchio and the History of Florence (Begins Introductions to Historic Cities Series)
- Italy
- Why I Teach Machiavelli Through His Letters
- San Marco: The Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence
- The Shape of Rome
- Venice II: Mask Culture
- Venice I: What’s Carnival Really Like?
- Arbitrary Pricing
- The Joust of the Star (la Giostra della Stella)
- Bologna for a Day
- Guess the Price – Guess the Purse
- Promoted Comment
- From Ada’s AMA: Minutiae Ignota
- From Ada’s AMA: Terra Ignota, Bash’es & Hives
- From Ada’a AMA: Terra Ignota, Language, Gender & Music
- From Ada’s AMA: Life
- From Ada’s AMA: Writing
- From Ada’s AMA: What’s the most effective way for someone today to encourage space exploration?
- Promoted Comment: The Scary Atrocious Thomas Hobbes
- Intellectual Technology—a Promoted Comment
- Rome
- Plato essay, #historypix, and the excessively exciting life of Pope Urban VIII
- The Shape of Rome
- Really Real Fake Centurions: Legio I Italica
- Fake Centurions II
- Real Fake Centurions
- Spot the Saint
- Spot the Saint: More Dominicani
- Spot the Saint: The Four Doctors + Saints’ Hats
- Spot the Saint: Jerome and Cosmas & Damian
- Spot the Saint: The Four Evangelists
- Spot the Saint: Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist
- Spot the Saint Mini-Quiz
- Spot the Saint: Agatha and Lucy
- Spot the Saint: Nicholas and Befana (Christmas Special)
- Spot the Saint: Franciscans (Friars Minor)
- Spot the Saint: Dominicani
- Spot the Saint: Reparata and Zenobius
- The Heavenly Court
- Spot the Saint: Peter and Paul
- Spot the Saint: Sebastian and Catherine of Alexandria
- Spot the Saint: John the Baptist and Lorenzo (Begins Spot the Saint Series)
- Talk Transcripts
- Who We Think Has the Power to Change the World? (transcript)
- Why I Teach Machiavelli Through His Letters
- Travel
- Pluto Ahoy! Also, New Music Kickstarter & Photos of Greenland.
- Stage Blood and Jetlag, or an Ex Urbe Visit to London
- A Sunny Day in Oxford
- The Scariest Library
- Modern Pentathlon: Quick plug for an obscure but awesome sport.
- When in London, do as the Greeks do.
- A Food Map of Florence
- Florence: Overview of Churches and Monuments
- Florence: Overview of Major Museums
- Photo Album Created
- Bathroom Suspense
- Site Migration Complete
- Salve!
- Uncategorized
- 2019 Campbell Speech + Refugee Charity Fundraiser
- Thoughts on a Bad Pain Day and How Teamwork Accumulates
- The Will to Battle is out today!
- San Marco: The Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence
- Day After the Book Comes Out Link Round-up
- So Much Shakespeare!
- In Ristauro (undergoing renovations)
- New Gelato Atlas, Forthcoming Plans, Web bugs?
- Comments Re-enabled; RSS & Mailing List; Noon Cannon
- Holiday Gift Suggestions from Ex Urbe