anyone remember?

[ItalianStereotype]

does anybody remember back when the Poli/Philo. board was still entertaining? back before OaO turned it into a massive explanation of the tax code and when Vince was still the sputtering fool that so rarely appears these days?

I do...

we discussed religion and history (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=3932)

made fun of vince for being poor (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4173)

watched vince jabber on about something...I didn't really read the thread (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4059)

talked about Hitler (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=3219)

discussed ideologies (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=3621)

and we made (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=2920)...fun (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=3896)...of (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4087)...vince (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4229)

why, vince even had a few friends over for a playdate! (http://i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4192)

thems were the days

[Dole]

its cos that precocious little shit has the message board equivalent (and a very pretentious strain of) verbal diarrhoea

[mburbank]

I coulkd wacth your avatar all day. Is "Pussycat" on DVD?

[Dole]

I'm sorry, I was looking at the nice lady's bottom, what did you say?

[Miss Modular]

We also discussed my philosophy (http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4064)

And here's what I was looking for last night (http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=4018).

[ItalianStereotype]

Mod, why were you looking for that thread? any historimical junk I can help you with?

[Miss Modular]

I was actually thinking about boning up on World History now that I'm out of school. It would give me something to do.

[Miss Modular]

Actually, right now, I'm interested in Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries. Surely you could help there.

[ItalianStereotype]

do you want to know about Italy in general, a particular state, or the Holy See?

[Anonymous]

Well, it's not Hitler, but OAO did praise Pinochet in a thread a few months back.

[Miss Modular]

do you want to know about Italy in general, a particular state, or the Holy See?

Basically the first--I'm interested in the political and social climate of the period.

[executioneer]

I have never enjoyed this forum >:

-willie

[ItalianStereotype]

hmm...that's not the easiest thing to tackle, Mod. until 1861 (1870 if you count the unification with Rome), there was no unified Italian state; it was a band of micro-states that lacked even the loose confederacy that the Holy Roman Empire had. if this is your topic of interest, my suggestions are:

The Prince
Origins of the State in Italy: 1300-1600 (VERY DRY READ)
Francesco Guicciardini's A History of Italy
The Rise and Fall of House Medici
Venice
Venice: The Hinge of Europe
The Renaissance Popes
The Borgias
Venice: City, Republic, and Empire
Pulci's Morgante and Medici Politics
The Pope's Elephant (I haven't read it, but I've heard good things)
Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy

that should give you a pretty solid basic knowledge of 16th and 17th century Italy, but I'll try to find more for you.

[Miss Modular]

Well, thank you sir. ;) I'm pretty sure that The Borgias and the Renaisscance Popes would come in handy.