Florence
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Florence is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 7 times across 7 issues between April 30, 2021 and April 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “we are led through the Florence library in the aftermath of the destructive floods of the river Arno”; “at whose home Balatri was living in Florence”; “and led to his exile from Florence to Rome”. It most often appears alongside Berkeley, Discord, Europe.
Metadata
- Category: Places
- Mention count: 7
- Issue count: 7
- First seen: April 30, 2021
- Last seen: April 01, 2025
Appears In
- Your Book Review: Double Fold
- Your Book Review: The Castrato
- Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024
- Meetups Everywhere 2024: Times & Places
- Meetups Everywhere Spring 2025: Times & Places
- Open Thread 375
- The Colors Of Her Coat
Related Pages
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- Berkeley (4 shared issues)
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- Discord (4 shared issues)
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- Europe (4 shared issues)
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- France (4 shared issues)
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- Italy (4 shared issues)
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- Melbourne (4 shared issues)
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- Rome (4 shared issues)
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- San Jose (4 shared issues)
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- Singapore (4 shared issues)
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- TEL AVIV (4 shared issues)
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- 200 Degrees (3 shared issues)
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- 4th Ave Food Park (3 shared issues)
External Links
None.
Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The 1988 film Slow Fires, which turned its director Terry Sanders into a household name in American libraries, was one of the cleverest pieces of anti-paper propaganda ever made, and Baker devotes considerable attention to it. The movie starts slowly, with scenes of crumbling marble inscriptions and papyri, accompanied by sorrowful music, followed by clips from interviews with famous scholars, all of whom emphasize how much they value working with primary sources. In the following scene, we are led through the Florence library in the aftermath of the destructive floods of the river Arno, and through the ruins of a nameless burnt-out library, accompanied by more of the same solemn music. A sensitive viewer might have shed a tear at these scenes, and it looks obvious that this is a movie about the value of preserving our cultural heritage, and the importance of historical artifacts.
“He was sent from Italy to Moscow at about the age seventeen (in 1698), but only after extensive negotiations that took place at the court of Tuscany. As Balatri tells it, the Grand Duke Cosimo III wanted to satisfy the czar so he looked to Filippo’s father for the boy’s release. The father resisted at first, but the czar’s agent—a cousin of Peter the Great from the Golitsyn family—persisted and then succeeded on the condition that Filippo be treated “as a son.” In the end it was not really the father who released and sent him abroad, of course, but the grand duke, nor was there any difficulty breaking a three-year contract the father had recently signed with a local singing master at whose home Balatri was living in Florence.” [pg. 63]
Tosi and Domenico Cecchi (Il Cortona, ca. 1650-55 to 1717-18) carried out delicate assignments for Joseph I; and De Castris (ca. 1650-1724) in the early eighteenth century played the hopeless role of intermediary between Cosimo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his estranged son until the whole thing blew up and led to his exile from Florence to Rome, where he continued to carry out diplomatic missions for the Grand Duke. These positions and actions paled by comparison with Farinelli’s, but Melani’s in the previous century were equally flamboyant, if transitory and sometimes shady (he accepted favors from different princes left and right, and in 1667 he claimed chief responsibility for the election of Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi as Pope Clement IX). [pg. 170]
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA Contact: Alex Liebowitz Contact Info: alex[at]alexliebowitz[dot]com Time: Saturday, April 13th, 6:00 PM Location: Common house at 100 Black Birch Trail, Northampton, MA 01062. The common house is the first building you see when coming into the community (but after the event parking, which lines the road leading in on the right). Facebook and Apple Maps show it as being in Florence, but Google Maps, Bing Maps and the official site show it as being in Northampton. (Florence is a village within Northampton, but both addresses are the same place.) Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J9884H+VF Event Link: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/78BKdkLerGaBwGTx6/northampton-ma-acx-meetup-spring-2024-meetups-everywhere Group Link: There's a mailing list, but you just email me at alex[at]alexliebowitz[dot]com to get on. Notes: Guest parking should be along the road leading in (Black Birch Trail), parking to the right as you drive in. There is an Event Parking sign but it is not the most visible. There are disabled spaces directly in front of the Common House (100 Black Birch Trail). If we overflow the road, people can use the resident lots to the left and right.
Contact: Alex Liebowitz Contact Info: alex[at]alexliebowitz[dot]com Time: Saturday, September 28th, 06:00 PM Location: Common house at Rocky Hill Cohousing, 100 Black Birch Trail, Northampton, MA 01062. The common house is the first building you see when coming into the community (but after the event parking, which lines the road leading in on the right). Note: Florence is a village within Northampton, and some maps services show the city as Florence, some as Northampton. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J9884H+VF Group Link: Email alex[at]alexliebowitz[dot]com to get on mailing list (let me know if you want to be a CC or BCC). Notes: Guest parking should be along the road leading in (Black Birch Trail), parking to the right as you drive in. There is an Event Parking sign but it is not the most visible. There are disabled spaces directly in front of the Common House (100 Black Birch Trail). If we overflow the road, people can use the resident lots to the left and right.
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87J9884H+VF
Contact: Daniele Contact Info: daniele[period]denuntiis[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Saturday, May 3rd, 4:00 PM Location: Via Martin Luther King, 100, 24127 Bergamo BG. We'll be hanging out near the Cafe, I'll bring a sign or something recognizable. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8FQFMJMP+3X Notes: Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re not ‘the typical ACX reader’, even if you’re worried people won’t like you, etc. RSVPs appreciated but not required. FLORENCE Contact: Joel Contact Info: WhatsApp: [plus]393517734452 Time: Wednesday, April 2nd, 6:00 PM Location: 6PM at Giardino pubblico "La Montagnola" Via Salvi Cristiani, 50135 Firenze FI, Italy https://maps.app.goo.gl/eX51qGzDcwHhyXuV6 Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8FMHQ7GV+FG Notes: RSVP with WhatsApp to +393517734452
Inline links: https://plus.codes/8FQFMJMP+3X, https://plus.codes/8FMHQ7GV+FG
Contact: Alex Liebowitz Contact Info: alex[a t]alexliebowitz[period]com Time: Friday, April 11th, 06:00 PM Location: Common house at Rocky Hill Cohousing, 100 Black Birch Trail, Northampton, MA 01062. The common house is the first building you see when coming into the community (but after the event parking, which lines the road leading in on the right). Note: Florence is a village within Northampton, and some maps services show the city as Florence, some as Northampton. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J9884H+VF Group Link: Email alex[at]alexliebowitz[dot]com to get on mailing list (let me know if you want to be a CC or BCC). There's also a lightly-used Discord that you can join at at https://discord.gg/vec [remove this bit] W7TfsPg . Notes: Guest parking should be along the road leading in (Black Birch Trail), parking to the right as you drive in. There is an Event Parking sign but it is not the most visible. There are disabled spaces directly in front of the Common House (100 Black Birch Trail). If we overflow the road, people can use the resident lots to the left and right.
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87J9884H+VF
Contact: Joel Contact Info: WhatsApp: [plus]393517734452 Time: Wednesday, April 2nd, 6:00 PM Location: 6PM at Giardino pubblico "La Montagnola" Via Salvi Cristiani, 50135 Firenze FI, Italy https://maps.app.goo.gl/eX51qGzDcwHhyXuV6 Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8FMHQ7GV+FG Notes: RSVP with WhatsApp to +393517734452
Inline links: https://plus.codes/8FMHQ7GV+FG
1: Meetups this week include SF, San Jose, Melbourne, Bonn, Singapore, and Florence. And some late additions to the schedule, including Hanover, Bonn, and Ahmedabad. See here for details.
Inline links: here
And I thought of computer monitors. If you wanted to see Lippi’s Madonna and Child when it was first painted in 1490, you would have to go to Florence and convince Lorenzo de Medici to let you in his house. Now you can see a dozen Lippi paintings in a sitting by typing their names into Wikipedia - something you never do. Why would you? They’re just more Lippi.