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Bomarzo">A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on Bomarzo

“Mujica Lainez’s Duke of Bomarzo is a lantern that illuminates... our tenebrous but also brilliant little lives.”

By Álvaro Enrigue | August 8, 2025

How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture

How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture

Bernd Roeck on the Role of Monasteries in Laying the Intellectual Groundwork for the Renaissance

By Bernd Roeck | June 16, 2025

A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

Andrew Hui Considers the Innumerable Benefits of a Philosophical Room of One’s Own

By Andrew Hui | December 5, 2024

The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety"> Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What <em

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The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety">

The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety">Boccaccio’s Modern Life: What The Decameron Reveals About Contemporary Anxiety

Ed Simon Considers the Act of Storytelling as a Means of Preserving Our Humor and Humanity in Tumultuous Times

By Ed Simon | August 5, 2024

Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 17, 2023

How a Venetian Monk Created the First Annotated Map of the World

How a Venetian Monk Created the First Annotated Map of the World

Meredith F. Small on the Textual Cartography of Fra Mauro

By Meredith F. Small | June 26, 2023

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