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  • The Atlas of Orlando Furioso

    • October 19, 2019
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      Ludovico Ariosto’s epic romance poem was an Italian renaissance masterpiece that Casanova first read when he was sixteen and which exerted an enormous influence over him for the rest of his life.  He claimed to read it two or three times every year and to know off by heart pretty much all 40,000 lines
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  • Europe and the Islamic world, 1600 – 1800

    • September 14, 2019
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    The ever excellent Met Museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History has pulled together a set of materials that give a fascinating insight into some of the cultural interactions between Islam and Christendom during the age of reason – here.   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles
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  • Reading addiction in the 18th century

    • August 10, 2019
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      ‘When cultural commentators lament the decline of the habit of reading books, it is difficult to imagine that back in the 18th century many prominent voices were concerned about the threat posed by people reading too much. A dangerous disease appeared to afflict the young, which some diagnosed as reading addiction and others as
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