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The Brothers Who Asserted Their Right to Free Speech in Tudor England
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoIn the autumn of 1566, the Parliament of England gathered at the Palace of Westminster in London. The session was fraught from the outset, with many members of the House of Commons urging their ...
The Real Story Behind Netflix's 'The Decameron'
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoWhen the 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio published The Decameron, a collection of short stories about an outbreak of bubonic plague in...