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“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study — The Public Domain Review

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study/
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Nov. 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m.
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Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and finds a space where words mediate the world and the self.