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Inside: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance"; and more!
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Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance": A tour-de-force, a magnum opus, a work of utter brilliance.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116465078964277678
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