Inc. Staff Icon Group International · 2008
A prose polemic arguing against government licensing and censorship of books.
Ada Palmer values it as a beautifully written rhetorical piece presenting the importance of letting free voices move.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“Milton of Paradise Lost Fame wrote our first big defense of the free press. And this is in the moment in the early 1600s when England doesn't yet have systematic censorship law.”
Why: It is a beautifully written rhetorical piece presenting the importance of letting free voices move.
Ada Palmer, Guest on Dwarkesh PodcastWhy Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
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The Prince
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The Swerve
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Discussed together in: Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer (Dwarkesh Podcast)
Inventing the Renaissance
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Discussed together in: Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer (Dwarkesh Podcast)
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Discussed together in: Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer (Dwarkesh Podcast)