Brynn Moore’s Reviews > The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries > Status Update

Dang I just really love this book

These philosophers, despite their wisdom and relevance, remind me so much of how Mary in one of my other books that I’m currently reading says that if she were a man and born in a different place, she herself would come to be a great philosopher among them, and she’s totally right.

It would be cool to hang out with Montaigne but if I had to be around him or married to him back in the day he may have suffered a tragic and early end

Hui details the lives and studiolos of all these many relevant humanists and philosophers, of which he names a few women included here and there, some of whom also had a studiolo or room to themselves, and I’d love to read his similarly detailed arguments on them! He can definitely make many pages from a quote or two, so I don’t feel that my wish is unrealistic

This page mentions a familiar issue: a woman having to give up her privacy and quiet study/reading time as she has become a mom.

I hope to see Hui talk about these women philosophers and writers through a historically transcendental view as he has done with Machiavelli and others, since he has made it very clear how this is a key component of humanism and the nature of a studiolo.

This is so oversimplified, but so many of these guys are just obsessed with themselves and their book-themed man caves! Hui mentions that, and I hope he gets into it more because I know he has thoughts!!