The Republic of Letters

Via revealing portraits & analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life—and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, & reverence, this thought-provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.

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Lara Vergnaud has translated over a dozen books from the French. She received a PEN/Heim Translation Grant for her translation of France, story of a childhood, by Zahia Rahmani, which was released by Yale University Press in 2016. She is the recipient of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize & was a finalist for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. Her forthcoming translations include works by Mohamed Leftah & Franck Bouysse.

Her work has been featured in The Paris Review, Literary Hub, & the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Lara was born in Tunisia & grew up in the United States.