Boring Switzerland: Although, now that I have been prodded, I must admit that the Swiss have been rambunctious & exciting (abroad, anyway), there is, I think, still some truth in the Harry Lime quote about their dullness.
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We’re narrowing in on it, but let’s remember the glories of the Renaissance were mostly before Tuscany’s biggest bankers started calling themselves “dukes”, and Swiss aristocrats were firmly in charge until Napoleon rolled them
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the republic = Bürgertum is a distinctly 1789 idea, before that everyone knew the great republics (Venice esp) were always aristocratic
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but prolly biggest diff is how we are estimating cultural vigor - Italy was a snoozefest after Guicciardini, Calvinists made Europe pretty spicy and then Geneva was a basecamp again in the 18th c
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(but ofc i agree on the national mannerisms, verve etc)
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