Aeon·2026-10-19 18:00· 14 d agoFeaturedRecommendation80.56

Horrible, unmanly, indispensable

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Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon - by Catherine Fletcher Read on Aeon

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