Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco revea...

For sale in CIS only! How the great minds of the West formed an image of the Ottoman Empire and of Eastern Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intellectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of Pippidi's...