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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1568594" data-attributes="member: 6533">Loads of crazy internal urban adventures and politics.Plagues.Pirates.Bizarre imported and rediscovered beasts.Alchemy.Recovered texts and magic.Lots of sailing or travelling off to deal with strange rising empires or fallen ones.Loads of mysterious and very well educated refugees.Holy and unholy alliances.Fantastic art and the politics surrounding same.Countrysides undergoing some rather odd environmental changes.  Little ice age to the very very very end of the period.  Other odd things earlier.Here's an odd little anecdote:This is a Florentine political episode.  The names have been changed because I'm not good at them.There are two premiere families in Florence.  The (in)famous Medici and the 'Crazies.'  The latter plot to take out the Medici and realize that the only way to do so is when the whole of Florence society is at mass for the Easter service.  They bribe/blackmail the bishop and as the host is raised to signal its consecration they leap over the pews and attack the Medici.  What results is a running battle through the cathedral as the Medici seek to retreat into the Bishop's quarters and then counter-attack.By the end of the day the bishop's body is hanging from the posts of the Cathedral and the whole town is in chaos as the two families simultaneously seek to negotiate individual truces and collectively seek to wipe each other out.The crowning point to how crazy the Renaissance was is that this whole episode results in little other then bloodshed.  The two families still lived in the same town and still hated each other when it was all over.The Medici had proved themselves to be relatively unimpeachable, however.Can you imagine how crazy that whole episode would have been with clerical magic involved?</blockquote>

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