Escobar: 2025 – A Second Renaissance, Or Chaos? Escobar: 2025 – A Second Renaissance, Or Chaos? Authored by Pepe Escobar, It’s a dazzling Tuscan winter morning, and I am inside the legendary Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, founded in the early 13th century and finally consecrated in 1420, in a very special place in History …