Philip Giurlando

In 2021, during the height of the pandemic, a friend published an excellent novel, and in one of the closing scenes, there is a dialogue bet...

In the summer of 2025 I spent 3 weeks in Paris to carry out research at the French national library. It is my 5th time in the city, and some...

Michela Fontana’s  Matteo Ricci :  A Jesuit in the Ming Court  presents the fascinating adventures of the eponymous Jesuit and his travels t...

During the academic year 2024-2025, a colleague requested that I lead a seminar for PhD students, one that  would be organized around a key ...

It took me around a year to get through Virgil’s timeless classic The Aeneid , not because of its length or difficulty, but rather because o...