Andrea Branchi

Researcher, Writer and Translator, Rome, Italy

Andrea Branchi is a researcher, screenwriter and translator based in Rome, Italy. He is the author of Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour (2021), and the editor of a new Italian translation of Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (forthcoming, 2026).

Written by Andrea Branchi

London’s Gherkin building lit at night with Canary Wharf skyscrapers glowing in the hazy background.

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Philosopher of pride

For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society

Andrea Branchi