Mårco Målvagio - poorly explained history stuffさんのイラストまとめ

Aaw, google honors Margherita Hack!
She was an italian astrophysicist and a bit of a hero of mine.
When she did a talk at my high school, at 90-ish yo, she had an argument with a philosophy professor.
She ended it with "if you keep your mind too open in Italy, the pope gets in"

I absolutely love this drawing of my characters - the ice-cream loving eldritch abomination River and their aspiring-assassin-turned-lover, Owl. drawn on commission by amazing @enrileo_ !

@jackdaw_writes I knew he was hiding something

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From what we know, on regular occasions romans wore brightly colored clothes, often in green and yellow. But not purple: beside being very costly, it became more and more associated with high office.

My lovely partner gifted me this commission from amazing @distyx and it ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS I'M SCREAMING
(characters from the WIP I'm currently editing, gay vampire banker and bisexual blood mage)

Since we know every fucking thing about cicero, we still have (his version of) his defensive oration during trials.
His main strategy, as far as I can see, was spewing bullshit weakly related to the case untill his opponent gave up.
A pic:

SPECIMEN 1 - The Actual, Legit Roman Empire.
HOW TO SPOT: easy one, a blob going all the way around the mediterranean
WHAT IT WAS: the famous one! They had togas, gays, fish sauce, gladiators, pax romana, feeding christians to lions, all the good stuff.

As a quick reminder, the Doge, supposed leader of the Republic of Venice, was something between a figurehead and a very fancy prisoner. So, how did that came to be? To understand, we have to see the rest of Italy.