Ada Palmer on Nostr: Florence did fight the ducal takeover. Cellini’s Perseus statue, the topic of my ...

Florence did fight the ducal takeover. Cellini’s Perseus statue, the topic of my first thread in this series, commemorated Duke Cosimo crushing of one violent uprising, & his desire to cast the severed heads of his enemies in eternal bronze was a show of force, but also fear. https://buff.ly/3WtqEEx 10/?