Monthly Archives: February 2025

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Roundup, Winter doldrums 2025

Interesting books:

  • Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward: 2000-1887, 1888.
  • Beneš, Jakub S. Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2017.
  • Benvenuto, Beppe. Giuseppe Prezzolini. Il divano 208. Palermo: Sellerio, 2003.
  • Blouin, Andrée. My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria. Edited by Jean Mackellar. New York: Verso Books, 2025.
  • Borowski, Audrey. Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
  • Gaus, Gerald F., and John Thrasher. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Introduction. Revised edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
  • Hui, Andrew. The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.
  • Katz, Victor J., and Clemency Montelle, eds. Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
  • Koyré, Alexandre. Réflexions sur le mensonge. 4e éd. Paris: Éditions Allia, 2016.
  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
  • ———. Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. Edited by Michael Mooney. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
  • ———. The Classics and Renaissance Thought. Martin Classical Lectures. Cambridge: Published for Oberlin College by Harvard University Press, 1955.
  • O’Flaherty, Liam. The Informer, 1925.
  • Paul, Zakir. Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
  • Toscano, Fabio. The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation. Translated by Arturo Sangalli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
  • Volić, Ismar. Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
  • Volodine, Antoine. Terminus radieux: roman. Paris: Seuil, 2014.

Rabbit holes: other victims of religious intolerance in the 16th-17th centuries (e.g. Cardano, Vanini, Sarpi).