<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Historia Minuta: Words]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy in its own words]]></description><link>https://www.historiaminuta.com/s/words</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bS5H!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bf6095f-561f-4dfe-b08a-72e30a594e6d_1254x1254.png</url><title>Historia Minuta: Words</title><link>https://www.historiaminuta.com/s/words</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:53:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.historiaminuta.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Historia Minuta]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[historiaminuta1@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[historiaminuta1@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Historia Minuta]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Historia Minuta]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[historiaminuta1@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[historiaminuta1@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Historia Minuta]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Belle Parole: the Tree inside the Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strip the bark, tie the boards, fold the leaves: a book]]></description><link>https://www.historiaminuta.com/p/belle-parole-the-tree-inside-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.historiaminuta.com/p/belle-parole-the-tree-inside-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Historia Minuta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:01:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8bf002c5-b2ed-44d9-975c-d7137f96ddca_1731x909.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One word can hold a whole history inside it. </p><p>I take them apart to see. Every so often three of them belong together: here they are.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.historiaminuta.com/p/belle-parole-the-tree-inside-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.historiaminuta.com/p/belle-parole-the-tree-inside-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3>Libro/Book</h3><div class="comment" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/&quot;,&quot;commentId&quot;:275634338,&quot;comment&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:275634338,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15T17:00:03.377Z&quot;,&quot;edited_at&quot;:null,&quot;body&quot;:&quot;Strip the bark off a green branch. Under the hard outer skin there's a pale, damp layer: the Romans called it liber.\n\nIt became the Italian word for a book: libro. The thing you're reading, named after the wet skin under bark.\n\nThe English word may hide a tree too. \&quot;Book\&quot; likely traces back to beech (German Buche). The link is tempting, but not clean: scholars are still divided.\n\nThere's a reason. Before paper, people wrote on what the land gave them: birch bark across northern Eurasia, palm leaves in the tropics.\n\nA book was a substance first; the text came after. Something peeled, scraped, dried, sewn&#8230; It cost what the material cost, and the material was scarce.\n\nPaper changed that, slowly. The Chinese had it by the 2nd century BCE, and it crossed the Islamic world to Muslim Spain.\n\nBy the 1080s it was circulating in the Christian north, the Missal of Silos written on it. The first documented mills came later, at X&#224;tiva in 1151.\n\nThe early sheets were pulped from rags, worn-out linen and hemp.\n\nGutenberg's press, in the 1450s, cut the cost of a copy again. Then the screen took the weight away entirely.\n\nBut the Italian word libro still holds the ancient trees inside it: the living layer under the bark, the last thing you'd peel before the wood.&quot;,&quot;body_json&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;doc&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{&quot;schemaVersion&quot;:&quot;v1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null},&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Strip the bark off a green branch. Under the hard outer skin there's a pale, damp layer: the Romans called it &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;liber&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;It became the Italian word for a book: &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;libro&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;. The thing you're reading, named after the wet skin under bark.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The English word may hide a tree too. \&quot;Book\&quot; likely traces back to beech (German &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Buche&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;). The link is tempting, but not clean: scholars are still divided.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;There's a reason. Before paper, people wrote on what the land gave them: birch bark across northern Eurasia, palm leaves in the tropics.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;A book was a substance first; the text came after. Something peeled, scraped, dried, sewn&#8230; It cost what the material cost, and the material was scarce.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Paper changed that, slowly. The Chinese had it by the 2nd century BCE, and it crossed the Islamic world to Muslim Spain.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;By the 1080s it was circulating in the Christian north, the Missal of Silos written on it. The first documented mills came later, at X&#224;tiva in 1151.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The early sheets were pulped from rags, worn-out linen and hemp.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Gutenberg's press, in the 1450s, cut the cost of a copy again. Then the screen took the weight away entirely.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;But the Italian word &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;libro&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot; still holds the ancient trees inside it: the living layer under the bark, the last thing you'd peel before the wood.&quot;}]}]},&quot;restacks&quot;:1,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:4,&quot;children_count&quot;:0,&quot;attachments&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0d39d3b6-4be8-41d5-a97d-dcab3ccf9e2b&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;imageUrl&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/de85e4c7-438d-48a9-b940-75be6ca5cfb3_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;imageWidth&quot;:1254,&quot;imageHeight&quot;:1254,&quot;explicit&quot;:false}],&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Historia Minuta&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:210723901,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0537bbe8-1aec-490c-88ed-1648e33311a0_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;user_bestseller_tier&quot;:null,&quot;userStatus&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:null,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:null,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:null,&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}},&quot;source&quot;:null,&quot;forumChannel&quot;:null}" data-component-name="CommentPlaceholder"></div><div><hr></div><h3>Foglio/Sheet</h3><div class="comment" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/&quot;,&quot;commentId&quot;:275672107,&quot;comment&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:275672107,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-22T16:30:00.528Z&quot;,&quot;edited_at&quot;:null,&quot;body&quot;:&quot;Pick a leaf off a branch. In Italian that is a foglia. The sheet you write on is a foglio. \n\nTwo words, one root: the Latin folium, leaf.\n\nIn Italian the sheet is a leaf. Plainly, every day.\n\nIt goes past the word. A book is a stack of folded leaves, and its size is just how often you fold one sheet. \n\nFold it once for a folio, twice for a quarto, three times for an octavo: eight leaves out of a single sheet. In 1501 Aldus Manutius folded his sheets down that far in Venice and made a book you could carry in a pocket.\n\nWe even counted leaves before pages. Foliation came first; pagination only took over around 1600.\n\nEnglish reached the same picture by its own road. \n\nIts everyday word, sheet, has no tree in it. But \&quot;leaf\&quot; is old Germanic, and it meant a page in a book by the early 1400s. \n\nThe plant clings on: a book still has leaves.&quot;,&quot;body_json&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;doc&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{&quot;schemaVersion&quot;:&quot;v1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null},&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Pick a leaf off a branch. In Italian that is a &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;foglia&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;. The sheet you write on is a &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;foglio&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Two words, one root: the Latin &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;folium&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, leaf.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;In Italian the sheet is a leaf. Plainly, every day.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;It goes past the word. A book is a stack of folded leaves, and its size is just how often you fold one sheet. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Fold it once for a &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;folio&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, twice for a &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;quarto&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, three times for an &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;octavo&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;: eight leaves out of a single sheet. In 1501 Aldus Manutius folded his sheets down that far in Venice and made a book you could carry in a pocket.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;We even counted leaves before pages. Foliation came first; pagination only took over around 1600.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;English reached the same picture by its own road. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Its everyday word, sheet, has no tree in it. But \&quot;leaf\&quot; is old Germanic, and it meant a page in a book by the early 1400s. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The plant clings on: a book still has leaves.&quot;}]}]},&quot;restacks&quot;:1,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:22,&quot;children_count&quot;:0,&quot;attachments&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;8e57e110-4077-401f-89fb-cabcff69c211&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;imageUrl&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5b13654c-1532-4e9e-bc34-33875ecdf0b0_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;imageWidth&quot;:1254,&quot;imageHeight&quot;:1254,&quot;explicit&quot;:false}],&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Historia Minuta&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:210723901,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0537bbe8-1aec-490c-88ed-1648e33311a0_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;user_bestseller_tier&quot;:null,&quot;userStatus&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:null,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:null,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:null,&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}},&quot;source&quot;:null,&quot;forumChannel&quot;:null}" data-component-name="CommentPlaceholder"></div><div><hr></div><h3>Codice/Code</h3><div class="comment" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/&quot;,&quot;commentId&quot;:275662172,&quot;comment&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:275662172,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-29T16:28:38.781Z&quot;,&quot;edited_at&quot;:null,&quot;body&quot;:&quot;You can open a book straight to the middle, while a scroll makes you unwind it from the start.\n\nThat difference has a name.\n\nIn Italian, the law's great books are codici, and a code of any kind is a codice. \n\nThe word is a tree trunk. Codex, in Latin, was a block of wood, a log: caudex. \n\nRomans shaved such blocks into thin boards, waxed them, scratched notes with a stylus, and tied the boards along one edge. A stack of wooden tablets, bound. \n\nThat bundle gave the book its shape. Before it, the book was a scroll, a volumen, a thing you rolled (volvere).\n\nThe codex won slowly, between roughly 100 and 400 CE, carried by the early Church and its hunger for bigger books. Bound pages held more, and you could jump straight to a passage. \n\nWe still hold that form.\n\nThe English word kept the trunk too. \&quot;Code\&quot; reached English around 1300 through Old French, from the Latin codex: a book of Roman law, then a cipher (1808), then the instructions running this screen (1946).\n\nA block of wood ended up as the software behind the glass. Codice still holds the trunk inside it.&quot;,&quot;body_json&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;doc&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{&quot;schemaVersion&quot;:&quot;v1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null},&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;You can open a book straight to the middle, while a scroll makes you unwind it from the start.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;That difference has a name.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;In Italian, the law's great books are &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;codici&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, and a code of any kind is a &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;codice&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The word is a tree trunk. &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Codex&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, in Latin, was a block of wood, a log: &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;caudex&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Romans shaved such blocks into thin boards, waxed them, scratched notes with a stylus, and tied the boards along one edge. A stack of wooden tablets, bound. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;That bundle gave the book its shape. Before it, the book was a scroll, a volumen, a thing you rolled (&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;volvere&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;).&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The codex won slowly, between roughly 100 and 400 CE, carried by the early Church and its hunger for bigger books. Bound pages held more, and you could jump straight to a passage. &quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;We still hold that form.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The English word kept the trunk too. \&quot;Code\&quot; reached English around 1300 through Old French, from the Latin &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;codex&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;: a book of Roman law, then a cipher (1808), then the instructions running this screen (1946).&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;A block of wood ended up as the software behind the glass. &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Codice&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot; still holds the trunk inside it.&quot;}]}]},&quot;restacks&quot;:0,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:1,&quot;children_count&quot;:0,&quot;attachments&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;34fd37e7-413f-4f03-b314-dc2eb4368e31&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;imageUrl&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/151703f8-0948-4123-a358-6270c94f8d59_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;imageWidth&quot;:1254,&quot;imageHeight&quot;:1254,&quot;explicit&quot;:false}],&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Historia Minuta&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:210723901,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0537bbe8-1aec-490c-88ed-1648e33311a0_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;user_bestseller_tier&quot;:null,&quot;userStatus&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:null,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:null,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:null,&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}},&quot;source&quot;:null,&quot;forumChannel&quot;:null}" data-component-name="CommentPlaceholder"></div><div><hr></div><p>Read enough of them and you have walked through a wood after all.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.historiaminuta.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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