Guy Patin, author of Theophrastus Redivivus A critical note on Athéisme et dissimulation au xvii^e siècle by Gianluca Mori

Gianluca Mori’s latest book is both a model of philological investigation and a decisive contribution to the European history of ideas and culture at the beginning of the modern era, calling into question scholarly studies on “libertinage” and “free thinking,” too inclined to reason in terms of “mentalities” and to ignore the sociopolitical conditions making it necessary to (dis)simulate atypical ideas.