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This book is written in a way that feels like an enthusiastic, history nerd friend infodumping about their hyperfixation. I love it

A book about the Renaissance that's both irreverent and a labor of love, in which the author aims to lift the veil of a) the mythmaking around the period and b) the way historians shape & create narratives? Count me the fuck in!

oh. OH. we love a good villain reveal
it's been a while since i've been this curious and excited to find out what happens next in a book