Who should be covered in the 17-18th centuries?

Dear Peter,

I greatly admire your work, which rekindled my love for philosophy in great fashion. 

Will you find space to cover Cesare Beccaria and his treaty On Crimes and Punishments?

Thanks for everything you are doing.

Dear Peter,

in relation to the last suggestion, maybe you could cover Beccaria with his Milanese milieu: I have in mind in particular the magazine Il Caffé (The Coffeehouse) with its founders, the brothers Alessandro and Pietro Verri (whose “Observations on torture” were very influential on Beccaria).

Other italian topics for the XVIII century could be: 

- the Neapolitan Enlightenment, not only Giambattista Vico, but also Antonio Genovesi (who brought several innovations in the field of national economy) and Gaetano Filangeri (author of the Scienza della legislazione – science of legislation – where it advocates a reform in an anti-feudal sense of the legislation and the introduction of compulsory education).

- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, a Catholic priest in Modena, notable as historian, literary critic and political philosopher.

- the grand tour in the Italian peninsula, which was fundamental for the rediscovery of the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and therefore the Neoclassical aesthetics.
 

Thanks for your time and your fantastic podcast.

Apologies for the late reply, and no hard feelings if it's not possible to fit this in - but when you are doing Britain it would be really nice to hear a bit on Welsh Philosophy of the period! Wales is often overlooked in historical works, so as a resident of the country myself I'd love to hear maybe an episode on its contribution to philosophy. Obviously there's a bit of a language barrier, and due to said overlooking, there's a bit of a gap when it comes to my knowledge of specific philosophers - but there may be interesting things to say with regards figures such as Ellis Wynne (his work Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc / Visions of the Sleeping Bard is basically the Welsh answer to the Divine Comedy), Edward Lhuyd (a polymath with many writings on many topics) and Thomas Vaughan (a philosopher and alchemist in the tradition of Cornelius Agrippa), among others. Unfortunately the time has probably passed for discussions of Welsh Humanism (and its greatest proponent, William Salesbury), and possibly will not come yet for a discussion of the Father of modern "druidic" philosophy (and prolific forger), Iolo Morganwg (though his life spanned the late 18th and early 19th century), but if you can fit some Welsh stuff in, I'd be very grateful!

Apart from the big obvious names that i’m sure you’ll cover: Böhme, Wolff, Baumgarten, Lessing, Fichte, the Cambridge Platonists, Anne Conway, Ralph Cudworth, Moses Mendelssohn, Hamman, Herder, Reinhold, Solomon Maimon, Schiller, the Schegels, Novalis, Schleiermacher, F C Oetinger, John Pordage, John Sparrow, Jane Leade, William Law, Swedenborg, Louis Claude st Martin, J G Gitchel, Friedrich Breckling, Quirinius Kuhlmann, Pierre Poiret, Antoinette Bourignon, Johann Arndt, Gottfried Arnold, Robert Fludd, Athanasius Kircher, C K Rosenroth, Tomaso Campanella, the Rosicrucians and Rosenkreutz, J V Andreae, John Dee, Robert Ashford, Thomas Bromley, Dionysius Andreas Freher, Georg von Welling, Eckhartshausen, Louis Claude Saint Martin, Martinez de Pasqually, Goethe, Jacobi, de Maistre, Schulze, William Blake, Woodsworth, Suarez