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This is a commercial for the book at the top (and bottom) of the webpage. There’s nothing wrong with marketing, however this article is proposing and propagandizing -facts- about towers in renaissance Italy. The book markets itself to be an irreverent and witty take on historians’ tales about the Renaissance and its historical influence and how it has been propagandized. The top image in the article of towers is a modern fallacy（render）of what an Italian renaissance city might have looked like. In the third to last paragraph the author describes Bologna as the city of a hundred towers then describes Florence as having fewer but showing the same render. There are no actual references to infighting and burning described in the article. The author even alludes to a fictional Shakespearean story to enforce the point. So in which city when did this happen? The article also talks about the towers as being fireproof and for rich family’s ‚to then set your enemies homes on fire‘ later to say about Florence’s dozenish towers ‚Much to the despair of the city fire brigade‘ This reeks of creative history and perhaps much of history has been created, but others have far more references supporting their creativity. To quote Abe Lincoln ‚Don’t Believe everything you read on the internet‘