Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape; Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science 1480-1700; Carlo Ginzburg, Fear Reverence Terror; David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse, Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 and Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers.

Andrea kindly sent a copy of his book, and Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers was in recompense for review work. The rest were bought new or second-hand. I write briefly about Mandrou in relation to Foucault here, and about Ginzburg here and here. Richard Wilson’s book was the topic of a roundtable at the Shakespeare and British Inter-war Philosophy (1918-1939) event held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on 27 June 2026. My opening comments are here.