Inventing the Renaissance

INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE by Ada Palmer ’01 is a playful and irreverent look at why the lie that there are dark ages and golden ages has been so hard to eradicate. She also dives into the drama of the age of Machiavelli, the Borgias, popes, and kings to show how the crises of the past can give us hope for our present. (2025, University of Chicago Press)