Lost in Leipzig
Alexander Bevilacqua: Forgotten Thinkers, 29 June 2023
Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History
by Martin Mulsow, translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.
Princeton, 434 pp., £35, January,978 0 691 20865 7 Show More
by Martin Mulsow, translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.
Princeton, 434 pp., £35, January,
“... To devote our life to authorship,’ Isaac D’Israeli wrote, ‘is not the true means of improving our happiness or our fortune.’ In Calamities of Authors (1812), he chronicled the lives of writers he considered at once ‘the most honoured, and the least remunerated’. Some of these men of letters were ‘driven to madness by indigence and insult’; others ‘died of overstudy’, suffered from melancholy or were exposed to public ridicule ... ”
