to the world as a child born scandalously out of wedlock who grew up to be a gay her ticket no formal education and fit into the 15th century florence because the republic of florence had become open to diversity and open to immigration. and open to new technology. did not fear what other places had. was interested in what other places had. and that florence thrived then because of that rich mix of different kinds of people with different ideas. and we would especially like donald trump to learn the lesson of the reactionary friar rola who led an uprising against the liberalism of florence and instituted a fundamentalist regime that imposed strict new laws against home sexuality and adultery with punishments of stoning and burning people to death, a militia of young boys
engineer centuries before the okayization of air nautical engineer existed and this mind of davinci that dazzled the world for centuries now came in to the world as a child born scandalously out of wedlock who grew up to be a gay her ticket no formal education and fit into the 15th century florence because the republic of florence had become open to diversity and open to immigration. and open to new technology. did not fear what other places had. was interested in what other places had. and that florence thrived then because of that rich mix of different kinds of people with different ideas. and we would especially like donald trump to learn the lesson of the reactionary friar rola who led an uprising against the liberalism of florence and instituted a fundamentalist
so you also talk about, for example, monet? uh-huh. what do we see there? monet, it s surprising to people he actually painted into the 20th century. at the end of world war i gave his great waterlily series to the nation of france to commemorate the victory. you talk about freedom. where do you see the freedom? what is he trying to capture? what monet was very passionate about was the third republic and the democracy that was so hard won in france. he wanted to use the paintings, as i said, to commemorate the victory, the great victory of france. he was very close friends to the prime minister at the time. one that s so familiar to all of us, michael angelo s, the david, how does that apply? with the david what s exciting about that is people think of it as an ideal of beauty. what it was, it was a commemoration of the republic of florence. michael angelo was very politically active. he deliberately created that to be a warning to florentines.