18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Reading rec question

[cahn]

good-looking men in Florence must have been a dime a dozen, so if all his contemporaries felt called upon to praise Giuliano Dami's beauty, we know he must have been smoking hot stuff.

...wow. Thanks for reading it and reporting back? Because this is hilarious to me, but I imagine it was rather less hilarious to actually read.

Re: Reading rec question

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, it was hilarious! I kept wanting to liveblog it at you guys! This and the 18th century tabloid, complete with Harold Acton/Norman Douglas intros.

But after I finished reading, I realized that it would just be a rant about how this is all terrible history and the amount I actually learned was minimal (though we did get documentary counterevidence to GG as pedophile!), so I would be better off actually trying to learn stuff.

That said, if I go back to these books when I have more time, you may hear from me on the subject of "These people should have stuck to historical fiction."