Philipp Blom was born in Germany in 1970, and lives in Vienna. He studied philosophy, modern history and Jewish culture in Vienna and Oxford. A historian, journalist, author and translator, he writes for European and American magazines and newspapers, including the Financial Times, The Independent and The Guardian. For Marsilio, he published Il primo inverno. La piccola era glaciale e l’inizio della modernità europea (1570-1700) (2018), La grande frattura. L’Europa tra le due guerre (1918-1938) (2019), Il gran teatro del mondo (2021) and La natura sottomessa (2023).