"Nous sommes part du monde": Montaigne, Greece and Italy

Abstract

During the late 80s and the early 90s, scholars thoroughly explored the connections between Montaigne, Greece and Italy. This collective initiative was at its height at four major conferences — on the occasion of the anniversaries of L’Angelier’s edition of the Essays in 1988 and Montaigne’s death in 1992 and their subsequent collectanea: Montaigne et la Grèce (1990), Montaigne e l’Italia (1991), Montaigne et l’Europe (1992) and Montaigne et l’histoire des hellènes (1994).1 This study will revisit the question by analyzing Montaigne’s relationship to French anti-Italian Philhellenism.