Vittoria Fallanca
@rhymeswithditto.bsky.social
accidental early modernist • private intellectual
wrote THE DESIGN OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS (OUP), now writing against love
Leverhulme ECF
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-design-of-montaignes-essais-9780198985488
wrote THE DESIGN OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS (OUP), now writing against love
Leverhulme ECF
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-design-of-montaignes-essais-9780198985488
A highlight from the National Etruscan Museum - Zeus with lightning bolt in his teeth.
September 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
A highlight from the National Etruscan Museum - Zeus with lightning bolt in his teeth.
My book made it to Rome ✨🧑🩰
September 7, 2026 at 7:09 AM
My book made it to Rome ✨🧑🩰
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The Leverhulme Library – showcasing recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded.
This month we have Ruben Andersson, @rhymeswithditto.bsky.social, Hana Morgenstern, Ian Talbot and @carissaveliz.bsky.social
This month we have Ruben Andersson, @rhymeswithditto.bsky.social, Hana Morgenstern, Ian Talbot and @carissaveliz.bsky.social
September 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The Leverhulme Library – showcasing recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded.
This month we have Ruben Andersson, @rhymeswithditto.bsky.social, Hana Morgenstern, Ian Talbot and @carissaveliz.bsky.social
This month we have Ruben Andersson, @rhymeswithditto.bsky.social, Hana Morgenstern, Ian Talbot and @carissaveliz.bsky.social
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L'historien Carlo Ginzburg est mort à 87 ans. Pionnier de la micro-histoire, il a fait de la rencontre avec l’inattendu le moteur de sa méthode et de son écriture. Pour (re)découvrir son parcours et sa pensée, écoutez l'entretien qu’il nous avait accordé en 2025.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/cPy
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/cPy
June 17, 2026 at 11:19 AM
L'historien Carlo Ginzburg est mort à 87 ans. Pionnier de la micro-histoire, il a fait de la rencontre avec l’inattendu le moteur de sa méthode et de son écriture. Pour (re)découvrir son parcours et sa pensée, écoutez l'entretien qu’il nous avait accordé en 2025.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/cPy
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/cPy
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"All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm on the part of a country whose higher education sector has until recently been one of the few things it had going for it." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Lorna Finlayson, Irreversible — Sidecar
On Britain’s universities.
newleftreview.org
May 29, 2026 at 8:17 PM
"All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm on the part of a country whose higher education sector has until recently been one of the few things it had going for it." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Announcing a new De Gruyter Brill book series -
Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures
Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University
brill.com/page/forthco...
We welcome your book proposals! Feel free to DM me for more info, or email me at [email protected]
Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures
Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University
brill.com/page/forthco...
We welcome your book proposals! Feel free to DM me for more info, or email me at [email protected]
May 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Announcing a new De Gruyter Brill book series -
Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures
Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University
brill.com/page/forthco...
We welcome your book proposals! Feel free to DM me for more info, or email me at [email protected]
Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures
Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University
brill.com/page/forthco...
We welcome your book proposals! Feel free to DM me for more info, or email me at [email protected]
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Remarkable drawing by Frances Yates from 1952, as she was studying Giordano Bruno's art of memory. This is the lead image for Relics, a new student-curated exhibition at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Much looking forward to seeing this up close....
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May 8, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Remarkable drawing by Frances Yates from 1952, as she was studying Giordano Bruno's art of memory. This is the lead image for Relics, a new student-curated exhibition at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Much looking forward to seeing this up close....
mailchi.mp/sas/news-fro....
mailchi.mp/sas/news-fro....
Looking forward to discussing my book tomorrow at the @mfoxford.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues @manymanyplies.bsky.social, @lukeosullivan.bsky.social & Emma Claussen. 12.30-2.00 if you happen to be in Oxford! 💚
April 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Looking forward to discussing my book tomorrow at the @mfoxford.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues @manymanyplies.bsky.social, @lukeosullivan.bsky.social & Emma Claussen. 12.30-2.00 if you happen to be in Oxford! 💚
Walking through the world with a toddler who waves at every single passer by is a real litmus test of societal morale.
March 17, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Walking through the world with a toddler who waves at every single passer by is a real litmus test of societal morale.
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Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, also known as the Codex Arundel (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes.
You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
March 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, also known as the Codex Arundel (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes.
You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Happy birthday to Montaigne, and to my book! This product of love and errance, now available @academic.oup.com.
February 28, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Happy birthday to Montaigne, and to my book! This product of love and errance, now available @academic.oup.com.
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Early modern Frenchies! Oxford Modern Languages/Trinity College is looking for a Departmental Lecturer, a 3 year position to replace me while I'm on secondment my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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February 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Early modern Frenchies! Oxford Modern Languages/Trinity College is looking for a Departmental Lecturer, a 3 year position to replace me while I'm on secondment my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘖𝘭𝘰𝘯. A French spirit that reenacts a moment of ‘yck’. Yck was a regular emotion of the 7th century used to express a moment of irredeemable disgust, a cognate of the modern ‘ick’ (OED).
February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘖𝘭𝘰𝘯. A French spirit that reenacts a moment of ‘yck’. Yck was a regular emotion of the 7th century used to express a moment of irredeemable disgust, a cognate of the modern ‘ick’ (OED).
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If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
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Annibale Carracci, Diana and Endymion, 1597-1602, Fresco, Galleria Farnese (Palazzo Farnese, Rome). Francesco Albani wrote, “When Annibale was alive, I heard him say that he wanted to redo his Diana, observing that it seemed as if she was plucking lice off her beloved Endymion.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Annibale Carracci, Diana and Endymion, 1597-1602, Fresco, Galleria Farnese (Palazzo Farnese, Rome). Francesco Albani wrote, “When Annibale was alive, I heard him say that he wanted to redo his Diana, observing that it seemed as if she was plucking lice off her beloved Endymion.”
Something we don't talk about enough is Caravaggio's humour.
January 11, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Something we don't talk about enough is Caravaggio's humour.
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
Maybe this is the year I read Moby Dick.
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Maybe this is the year I read Moby Dick.
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Virgin of the Dry Tree. Tiny, fascinating devotional work by Petrus Christus, whose day was today.
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Virgin of the Dry Tree. Tiny, fascinating devotional work by Petrus Christus, whose day was today.
Italy in 2025? Opening up the literature supplement of a major newspaper to find an 'interview' from heaven with the recently canonised millennial saint, San Carlo Acutis, entirely written by AI.
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Italy in 2025? Opening up the literature supplement of a major newspaper to find an 'interview' from heaven with the recently canonised millennial saint, San Carlo Acutis, entirely written by AI.
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Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
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New analysis of the Turin Strike Papyrus—a detailed account from 1157 BCE—shows how artisans building the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina staged a coordinated walkout after going 18 days without grain rations. tinyurl.com/29822yb2
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Collection online - The so-called “Strike Papyrus” written by Amunnakht
More than 4.000 of the approximately 40.000 objects in Museo Egizio’s collection are accessible here. All data are constantly updated, thanks to the continuous study and documentation of the objects.…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New analysis of the Turin Strike Papyrus—a detailed account from 1157 BCE—shows how artisans building the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina staged a coordinated walkout after going 18 days without grain rations. tinyurl.com/29822yb2
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#ShareGoodNewsToo