Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

Nearly 120 miles south of Washington, D.C., lies Charlottesville, a lively college town nestled in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains. Home to the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson in ...