Farrell, Thomas2020-02-272020-02-272020-02This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/211861See the above abstract.In my 4,400-word review essay "Patrick Boucheron's 2020 Book about Machiavelli and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss the French historian Patrick Boucheron's fast-paced, learned, and accessible short new book Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear [in a Ruler], translated from the French by Willard Wood (New York: Other Press, 2020; orig. French ed., 2017). I use the larger framework of the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard, 1955) to discuss various points Boucheron makes about the life and times of Machiavelli in the Renaissance in Italy. I discuss Renaissance humanism, including the work of the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and the founder of the Society of Jesus (known informally as the Jesuit order), St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), and early Jesuit education as part of Renaissance humanism. In addition, I briefly discuss Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope.enMachiavelli, Patrick Boucheron, Walter J. Ong, St. Ignatius Loyola, the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, Peter Ramus, Renaissance humnism, Pope FrancisScholarly Text or Essay