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Publication day tomorrow for THE GRAMMAR OF ANGELS, my account of the philosopher-poet Pico della Mirandola and his attempt to speak to the foundations of being. 🧵 1/
Tx to @TelegraphBooks for including ‘Grammar of Angels’ in this: hopefully under a few Christmas trees people will find this spell-book for breaking open the fabric of reality as we know it.
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Montaigne’s annotated copy of Lucretius, @theUL in Cambridge - an amazing high point from the de Botton Montaigne collection.
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El ensayista y profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista @EdwardWilsonLee hablará de 'Estancias, Orfeo y otros escritos' de Angel Poliziano en la mesa 'Castrati'.
VXIII edición de las #ConversacionesFormentor en Aranjuez.
🗓️5 octubre 2025
⏰10.30h
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The Grammar of Angels: Edward Wilson-Lee
Music and words intoxicate us, but we struggle to understand how. This sparkling and original book explains how one Italian man tried to set out a philosophy of the Renaissance and appalled the Catholic church
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Unbelievably proud to see four @WmCollinsBooks on this glittering long list of 12. Congratulations to all but esp. @exlarson @EdwardWilsonLee @keithplowe and Peter Marshall 👏👏👏
Those are the twelve books longlisted for the 2025 HWA Non-fiction Crown.
Congratulations to all!
A short break, then we’ll be back with the longlist for this year’s Gold Crown Award
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Many thanks to the judges, and congratulations to the other books on the list. More to read!
Those are the twelve books longlisted for the 2025 HWA Non-fiction Crown.
Congratulations to all!
A short break, then we’ll be back with the longlist for this year’s Gold Crown Award
#HWACrowns25 27/
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We’re looking for a new archivist @SidneySussex — a dream job, so please do apply, share, and send to people you think might be suitable!
sid.cam.ac.uk/node/33528
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A strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era, Charlie Warzel argues. “It seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.” theatln.tc/A54jcadO
We’re looking for a new archivist @SidneySussex — a dream job, so please do apply, share, and send to people you think might be suitable!
sid.cam.ac.uk/node/33528
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'European “victories” were often only victories by their own definition.'
Edward Wilson-Lee (@EdwardWilsonLee) on the recklessness of early European voyaging
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Grateful to @TheSimonEvans for this review, and for being provoked to think about the contagiousness of laughter alongside the sublime (on which I need to go back to Kundera on the laughter of angels and devils...). Also chuffed at the response to the audiobook.
“It might turn out we are all singing from the same hymn book after all“ — @TheSimonEvans reviews The Grammar of Angels, by Edward Wilson-Lee thecritic.co.uk/the-sacredne…
My students have recently and regularly started to use 'overwhelm' as a noun. Can anyone tell me why?
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'Pico was precocious – though, as a fabulously wealthy younger son of the princely house of Mirandola, near Modena, he could afford to be.'
Oren Margolis on a Renaissance philosopher who rejected reason
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Always so wonderful to see readers engaging so deeply with books. Thank you @AnnieWithBooks for reading and for this response.
#Read my #bookreview on “The Grammar of Angels” by Edward Wilson-Lee 💫 vocal.media/geeks/book-revie…
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For a story: if you're an academic in the US (or less likely to head to work there), and would consider being lured to teach in an Irish university instead, could I or another reporter chat with you? 🙏 (If it makes a difference, today the weather's fab)
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Many thanks to the brilliant @EdwardWilsonLee for answering my questions about his latest book, The Grammar of Angels. So many thoughtful and incisive answers! Link in next tweet
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Join us for 'European Magic and its Traditions - Islamic Magic'.
Charles Burnett (Warburg) in conversation with Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U. of South Carolina) and Michael Noble (University of Exeter).
20 May 2025, 5:30 - 7pm | Online
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/eur… #Magic
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I interviewed the brilliant @EdwardWilsonLee about his new book The Grammar of Angels. We explore the life of Renaissance occult philosopher Pico della Mirandola, and also the book's wider interest in magical language, the sublime, and the limits of individualism. Link follows…
Many thanks to @MathewJLyons for the acute reading of the book and the excellent questions! See link to the interview below
I interviewed the brilliant @EdwardWilsonLee about his new book The Grammar of Angels. We explore the life of Renaissance occult philosopher Pico della Mirandola, and also the book's wider interest in magical language, the sublime, and the limits of individualism. Link follows…