Friends and colleagues, I need some help from those of you working with Hebrew and/or Latin manuscripts. I’m working on a 15th-century Latin ms (a commentary on the Sentences by Petrus of Candia) in chancery hand, made from Italian paper 1/2

Someone who can help me with this annotation? It opens a Medieval manuscript containing a Latin translation from Arabic (the marginalia was written when the binding was restored). Many thanks!

Friends and colleagues in intellectual history and the history of philosophy: don’t miss the CFP for Lexicon 2026 (deadline for submissions Dec 30, 2025). The journal is peer-reviewed, diamond open access, and welcomes a broad range of topics across both fields! lexicon.cnr.it/ojs/index.ph...

Today! Join online the co-editors Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, and Davide Trentacoste who will discuss the Mediterranean as a space of connectivities and disconnections with Francesco Montuori and me!

Unfortunately, I couldn't fly to Boston this year, but don't miss the panels I organized with David M. Reher and Marcus Keller at #RenSa25! If you're curious to learn more about the Ottoman idea of Europe and the European historical imaginary of the Ottoman Empire, join our panels this Saturday!

Today on Zoom!

#skystorians it’s time for the last seminar of my 3-year Marie Curie project. This Friday, January 31, 3.30 PM (Italy time), join me, Edgar Omar Rodriguez Camarena, and Alberto Fabris, to discuss about New Spain and urban space in the 16C on Zoom ➡️ unive.zoom.us/j/88975868772

Today!

Next Tuesday Dec 17 at 3.30 PM (Italy time), you’re welcome to join me online on Zoom (or in Venice, if you’re there) to explore cosmographical developments and different concepts of space with Prof Tessicini and Prof Sgarbi. Event will be in English. Write me for the Zoom link.

#skystorians any suggestions for someone who’s outside the French academy (I was a visiting student in Paris during my PhD and one of my advisors is French) and wants to apply for the MCF habilitation (section 17 Philosophy and 22 Modern History)? Is an interdisciplinary research profile well seen?

Hi #skystorians, happy to see new faces! I’m an intellectual historian and early modernist, working on trans-regional and cross-linguistic exchange in the Mediterranean region. Love to know more about your research! This is one of the authors I’m working on, G. Postel (also studying Judah Abarbanel)

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

It’s been a while but I need some help: can you read this ex libris? I have some difficulties and many doubts

On my way to Frankfurt for the EMoDiR workshop “Rethinking religious otherness” where I’ll discuss Postel’s perception of Islam and Islamic radical sects. Happy to share my ideas with this cohort of scholars and listen to other research. You might join us on Zoom!

Unexpected exhibition at the MET Museum on Manet and Degas, their friendship and rivalry. Surprised by their works reproducing and renewing Renaissance art

This week at IU we celebrate the work of international scholars, students, and professionals on campus during the International Education Week. I’m happy to be part of this celebration tomorrow at the J-1 Scholar Symposium. I’ll share my experience as a Marie Curie fellow in the US 1/2

Pleased that the panels on transregional Renaissance(s) organized with Matt Hermane and the roundtable on Ottoman-European relationships organized with David the Reher have been accepted at the RSA in Chicago! And also the panel on Isaac Abarbanel I’ll chair (organized by Guido Bartolucci)! #RenSA24

First post here: I need help from colleagues expert in Arabic palaeography. What’s the best practise when transcribing a word with ta’ marbuta with no diacritic points? I usually transcribe words as I see in the manuscript (Latin, Ita, French), but not sure with Arabic consonants’ diacritic points