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Thomas Hobbes Symposium 2019

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THE ANNUAL THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY DAY

Programme of Events

The 3rd Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Symposium

The Old Bell Hotel, Malmesbury, Wiltshire

Saturday 1st June 2019

10.00 am – 4:30pm

HOBBES, MACHIAVELLI AND ITALY

10.00 Introduction to the day’s events

10.15 Professor Quentin Skinner - University of London

Machiavelli and Hobbes: a sequence of contrasts

11.15 Coffee

11.45 Dr. Raffaella Santi - University of Urbino, Italy

The Influence of Botero on Hobbes

12.45 Lunch

2.15 Dr. Luc Foisneau - Director of Research, CNRS, Paris

Cesare Beccaria: The Ghost of Hobbes in the Italian Enlightenment

3.15 Tea

3.30 Round up of the day and informal talks with the speakers

4.30 End of Symposium

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