‘On this good and rangy e book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a wonderful portrait of the nice Fifteenth-century prince of studying, and teaches you extra about magic than you thought you’d ever know.’ – ‘The best books of 2025’, The Telegraph
‘A deeply fascinating, sui generis e book by an excellent scholar-writer, which makes use of the life story of a Renaissance prodigy to summon an angel-host of concepts, individuals and tales, all circling the query of language’s means to transcend the mortal realm’ – Robert Macfarlane
‘In Wilson-Lee’s palms, essentially the most abstruse topics turn into not a lot clear as feverishly thrilling… such vary and ambition is, in any case, very Renaissance. It’s very Pico. It’s also a pleasure to learn.’ – James McConnochie, Sunday Times
Reward for Edward Wilson-Lee
‘The closest factor documented historical past can get to magic realism.’ — Simon Schama, Financial Times
