Karen Smythe (@karensmythe.bsky.social)

"But the studiolo — the diminutive of studio in Italian, a precursor to the modern-day study — came to offer readers access to a different kind of chamber, a personal hideaway in which to converse with the dead." The studiolo: a great word for my writing shed! publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...

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“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study 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 rev... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study/?src=longreads