Max Buccini
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📍NYC 🗽 Boston Bred 🦪 Globalist 🌍, Traveller DNA ✈️, Unabashed Broadway 🎭 Fanatic, Cher Crazed, History Steeped📚, Mediterranean 🌊 🍇Veins, Old Soul 🤓 In The Wrong Century🕯️. Author.
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“Cabinet officials face growing scrutiny over ethics and legality. The United States still wears the outward trappings of a constitutional republic. The behavior inside the building looks more and more like a Curia and court of a Borgia... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-make-...
MAGA: Make Alexander VI Great Again—How Trump Rebuilt the Borgia Court Inside the American Cabinet
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December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“Cabinet officials face growing scrutiny over ethics and legality. The United States still wears the outward trappings of a constitutional republic. The behavior inside the building looks more and more like a Curia and court of a Borgia... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-make-...
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Buckle up, buttercups! It’s dropping later this afternoon! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
Zeitgeist Media Artisans (@zeitgeistmediaartisans)
Our withering historical comparison between The Borgia Pope: "evil incarnate” according to contemporaries with the corrupt and callous cabinet of the second Trump regime is uncanny. Stay tuned TODAY! ...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Buckle up, buttercups! It’s dropping later this afternoon! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
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“The day sharpened into a moment that changed far more than the battle. The fog that could have blunted the Ottoman bowstrings is where we reroute our history, that hinge that could have changed a century—in our tale, it created the illusion of a collapsing empire… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
The Winds of Varna: How Fog, Fleet, and Fortune Recast the Eastern Mediterranean
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“The day sharpened into a moment that changed far more than the battle. The fog that could have blunted the Ottoman bowstrings is where we reroute our history, that hinge that could have changed a century—in our tale, it created the illusion of a collapsing empire… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
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“Power moves thru the Caribbean in the shape of a policy that claims legality while leaving bodies in the sea. History offers its indictment: 15th-17th
CE witnessed a maritime terror so pervasive entire regions organized their calendars around fear… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/todays-dru...
CE witnessed a maritime terror so pervasive entire regions organized their calendars around fear… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/todays-dru...
Today’s Drug-Boat Murders Form the Modern Return of the Mongols’ Hunt of Men in the Desolation of the Black Sea
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December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Power moves thru the Caribbean in the shape of a policy that claims legality while leaving bodies in the sea. History offers its indictment: 15th-17th
CE witnessed a maritime terror so pervasive entire regions organized their calendars around fear… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/todays-dru...
CE witnessed a maritime terror so pervasive entire regions organized their calendars around fear… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/todays-dru...
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You will not want to miss today’s Reboot The Renaissance! It’s cannot miss. The analogy is eerily horrifying. Make sure you’re subscribed! reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You will not want to miss today’s Reboot The Renaissance! It’s cannot miss. The analogy is eerily horrifying. Make sure you’re subscribed! reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe
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“Christmas morning did little to soften the knives in Naples. The Pope’s chamber might have glowed with prayer but the rest of CastelNuovo became winter forges of panic. Caetani understood instantly: hesitation was contagion. If resignation was refused… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-fir...
On The First Day...The Pope Who Refused to Resign: The Hermit Who Unmade A Century
12 Festive Frontiers: Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Christmas morning did little to soften the knives in Naples. The Pope’s chamber might have glowed with prayer but the rest of CastelNuovo became winter forges of panic. Caetani understood instantly: hesitation was contagion. If resignation was refused… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-fir...
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Be sure to gift the gift of subscription, even for only a month, you won’t want to miss this series! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
Zeitgeist Media Artisans (@zeitgeistmediaartisans)
12 Festive Frontiers:
Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
Across the long winter of Middle Ages and Early Modern Period throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Be sure to gift the gift of subscription, even for only a month, you won’t want to miss this series! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
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“Trump’s “deals” are wrapped in detonators disguised. This moment deserves Renaissance framing because the Renaissance understood the stakes. Memory was a civic instrument. History was a constitutional weapon. Precedent was a political compass…” reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-peace-...
The Peace Plan For War: Trump & The Autocrat Illusion In Ukraine
Post-Thanksgiving Break: Cultural Updates Now Available Brought to you by HumanistFreeAudio
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December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Trump’s “deals” are wrapped in detonators disguised. This moment deserves Renaissance framing because the Renaissance understood the stakes. Memory was a civic instrument. History was a constitutional weapon. Precedent was a political compass…” reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-peace-...
Tom Stoppard has sadly passed. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been waiting… apple.news/AA8Fg23wbTfS...
Sir Tom Stoppard, award-winning playwright, dies aged 88 — The Times and The Sunday Times
The award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has “died peacefully at home” at the age of 88, his agent has said. Stoppard, who won three Oliviers, five Tony awards and an Oscar, the latter for the sc...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Tom Stoppard has sadly passed. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been waiting… apple.news/AA8Fg23wbTfS...
Is the second season of #palmroyale the best gay romp ever? Wait. That wasn’t supposed to be a question. If #carolburnett doesn’t get another #Emmy for just episode one, there should never be awards anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Is the second season of #palmroyale the best gay romp ever? Wait. That wasn’t supposed to be a question. If #carolburnett doesn’t get another #Emmy for just episode one, there should never be awards anymore.
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“Under this thunder of pride and pressure stands Mircea cel Bătrân, the aged prince of Wallachia. The crusaders believe they know all. Bayezid believes he owns it. In the dark beneath the Danubian canopy, the hinge of history waits for a misplaced hoof… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-forest...
The Forest That Could Have Foiled the Sultan: When Mircea cel Bătrân Split the Sipahis & Set Europe’s Boundaries Anew
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“Under this thunder of pride and pressure stands Mircea cel Bătrân, the aged prince of Wallachia. The crusaders believe they know all. Bayezid believes he owns it. In the dark beneath the Danubian canopy, the hinge of history waits for a misplaced hoof… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-forest...
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“One divergence begins in that volatile winter. A single shift. A single choice. This is all it takes for history to reroute itself.
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
A Conspiracy That Could Have Cut a Kingdom in Two: Angevin Claims. Aragonese Fury. The Republic That Conquered Its Coast.
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“One divergence begins in that volatile winter. A single shift. A single choice. This is all it takes for history to reroute itself.
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
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“Florence understood something that many modern free market apostles pretend not to hear. A republic survives when prosperity circulates. A republic decays when prosperity stagnates. The instrument The Medici reached for was a wealth assessment… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/an-argumen...
An Argument For A Wealth Tax: From The Ultimate Architects Of Capitalism, The Medici
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November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Florence understood something that many modern free market apostles pretend not to hear. A republic survives when prosperity circulates. A republic decays when prosperity stagnates. The instrument The Medici reached for was a wealth assessment… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/an-argumen...
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Turns out, the architects of capitalism: The Medici actually instituted its own wealth tax. Even on themselves! Can you imagine? They refined the world’s very first income assessment in 1427 into a virtual duplicate of what is being proposed as a wealth tax. Stay tuned today for the whole story!
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Turns out, the architects of capitalism: The Medici actually instituted its own wealth tax. Even on themselves! Can you imagine? They refined the world’s very first income assessment in 1427 into a virtual duplicate of what is being proposed as a wealth tax. Stay tuned today for the whole story!
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“Florence woke in the ash-gray dawn: sounds of bells rolling across the Arno.
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
The Treasury of Heaven & Earth The Final Volume of “From Peter’s Purse to Caesar’s Chest”
The ReRoute of a Rivalry Even Shakespeare Would Have Dreamt Of
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November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“Florence woke in the ash-gray dawn: sounds of bells rolling across the Arno.
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
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“When her coffin was carried through the forum, crowds did not chant her name. They recited her: Law is the language of the living, not the lament of the lost. The phrase echoed through the arches, then through centuries. Chroniclers called her Livia.… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-second...
The Second Livia: If Placidia Rebuilt the Roman Mind In Byzantium Instead Of Plotting In Ravenna
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“When her coffin was carried through the forum, crowds did not chant her name. They recited her: Law is the language of the living, not the lament of the lost. The phrase echoed through the arches, then through centuries. Chroniclers called her Livia.… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-second...
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“The walls bristled with hired courage. Mercenaries lined the battlements. Averardo’s men sallied out, torched siege engines, poisoned horses, whispered through camps that the gold had run out. For Hell, was rehearsing itself in the fields of Tuscany… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Part II: The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride—Florence Marries Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow
The ReRoute of a Rivalry Even Shakespeare Would Have Dreamt Of
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
“The walls bristled with hired courage. Mercenaries lined the battlements. Averardo’s men sallied out, torched siege engines, poisoned horses, whispered through camps that the gold had run out. For Hell, was rehearsing itself in the fields of Tuscany… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
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You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
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That night they divide Gaul like partners in an inheritance. Rome will keep her scribes and seals. The Franks will keep their swords. Together they form a realm neither barbarian nor imperial, but both. A monarchy founded not on divine destiny, but on the idea that… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
ReRouted By History | Zeitgeist Media Artisans | Substack
Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped. Ins...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
That night they divide Gaul like partners in an inheritance. Rome will keep her scribes and seals. The Franks will keep their swords. Together they form a realm neither barbarian nor imperial, but both. A monarchy founded not on divine destiny, but on the idea that… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
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“Florence teaches when the firm forgets its humanism, the city pays the bill. The Medici built their fortune in cloth, credit, and culture. They built their legitimacy in people. They financed work as a civic act. They treated skill as a public asset reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
The Fall of the Humanist Firm: How Florence Hired Its Future While We Fire Ours
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November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Florence teaches when the firm forgets its humanism, the city pays the bill. The Medici built their fortune in cloth, credit, and culture. They built their legitimacy in people. They financed work as a civic act. They treated skill as a public asset reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
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“Suppose the ice cracked differently that winter. Suppose Charles lived through the melee: carried from the field to the sound of Margaret’s orders, her letters already riding toward London. In this rerouted by history, the phoenix of Flanders rises… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-phoeni...
The Phoenix of Flanders: How Margaret of York Could Have Built the First Global Court of Gold & Grace
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“Suppose the ice cracked differently that winter. Suppose Charles lived through the melee: carried from the field to the sound of Margaret’s orders, her letters already riding toward London. In this rerouted by history, the phoenix of Flanders rises… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-phoeni...
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“A republic revives where reason returns.
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Reengineering Integrity in a Broken Republic: The Spanberger–Sherrill–Slotkin Stratagem for Competence, Character, and Civic Restoration
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November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“A republic revives where reason returns.
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
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“Between 1140- 220, the Church of the Bons Hommes and Bonas Femnas flourished quietly from Albi to Alès, from Toulouse to Lombardy. It was a parallel Christianity—organized, literate, astonishingly humane. Its records survive in chronicles… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-hereti...
The Heretic Knight: When Bertrand of Forcalquier Broke the Church
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Between 1140- 220, the Church of the Bons Hommes and Bonas Femnas flourished quietly from Albi to Alès, from Toulouse to Lombardy. It was a parallel Christianity—organized, literate, astonishingly humane. Its records survive in chronicles… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-hereti...
To LD: #lauradern miss you and so incredibly sorry for your loss apple.news/AdSBJkcFRSUa...
Laura Dern Pays Tribute to Her Late Mother, Diane Ladd — Town & Country
“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created.”
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November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
To LD: #lauradern miss you and so incredibly sorry for your loss apple.news/AdSBJkcFRSUa...
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“Like Macron in his first ascent, Rob Jetten enters as restorer, not rebel, but restorer of purpose. Restoration does not necissarily mean reactionary when the principles and prescriptions align with innovation. He stands where decency and daring converge: courage… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
The Dutch Dauphin: Rob Jetten & Europe's Next Chance At Continental Consensus
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November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“Like Macron in his first ascent, Rob Jetten enters as restorer, not rebel, but restorer of purpose. Restoration does not necissarily mean reactionary when the principles and prescriptions align with innovation. He stands where decency and daring converge: courage… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...