Nick Havely is an eminent scholar on Dante, English-Italian literary traditions and late medieval literature. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, and is a widely published author on subjects concerning Dante and medieval writing. He is currently working on a study of Dante in the English-Speaking World from the Fourteenth Century to the Present for which he has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
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A C Grayling is Professor of philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, and supernumerary fellow of St Anne’s College Oxford. His books are diverse in subject, ranging from Wittgenstein and logic, to religion and the Enlightenment. His belief in the public importance of philosophy leads him to write regularly for The Guardian, the New Statesman and Prospect, among others, bringing the insights of moral philosophy to the practical concerns of everyday life. He is the author of Ideas That Matter, an encyclopaedia of ideas that shape our understanding of the world. He talks to The Browser about five classic books and why they matter.
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