December 2025

Sandro Landi holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute (EUI) and a Habilitation à diriger des recherches in History from the EHESS. He was a researcher at the CNRS (Centre Norbert Elias, UMR 8562, Marseille) and is currently Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. He has been a visiting professor at numerous foreign universities and served as Director of the doctoral school “Montaigne Humanités” from 2011 to 2021. His research focuses on the political culture of early modern Europe (16th–18th century), particularly on censorship, the public sphere, and public opinion. In recent years, from a historical perspective, he has undertaken a new reading of Machiavelli’s work. His latest monograph (Lo sguardo di Machiavelli. Una nuova storia intellettuale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017) has been translated and published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes and by the Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires (Eudeba); the English edition, Machiavelli’s Gaze, has just been released by Palgrave Macmillan. His current research explores an archaeology of populism.