Arthur Weststeijn (Amsterdam, 1980) is assistant professor in political history at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands).
Florence, 2009
He holds degrees in history and philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His academic work focuses on early-modern intellectual history, specifically on the intersections between republicanism and imperialism in Dutch, Italian, and Spanish contexts.
He also publishes popular history books (in Dutch) for a wider public, as well as Dutch translations of Italian philosophy, including a selection of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks .
De Nacht van Rome, 2017