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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer Italian History Before stunning the world withAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europes golden age. From the darkness of a plagued and war torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (were told) heralds the dawning of a new worlda halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer. In Inventing the Renaissance, Palmer turns her witty and irreverent eye on the fantasies weve told ourselves about Europes