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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI! What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science? Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?

Portrait of Machiavelli, wearing his little black hat and looking like a sweetie pie (this one is less reproduced than the one where he's in red and looks sinister, since people prefer to remember Machiavelli the schemer not Machiavelli the pancake nerd!

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