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Saturday, November 1, 2014

The 13th Floor Elevators' "Live Evolution Lost": Music Review

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Recorded when (most of the?) band's members endured the aftermath of acid stronger than they had anticipated, this live recording at H...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Fómhar i nGhleanna Darach

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Chuir muid cuirt go Ghleanna Darach le déanáí. Chuaigh Léna agus mise go Tailte na Dearg. Ar na gaobhair, tá áit níos airde, mile ard, i n...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

"Barlaam and Josaphat/ In Search of the Christian Buddha": Book Review

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Canonized unwittingly as St. Josaphat, a corruption of "bodhisattva," the Buddha, condemned as an idol worshipped by his duped...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Donald R. Howard's "Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World": Book Review

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This provides one of the liveliest narratives on medieval times that I can recall; the added bonus that a leading Chaucerian wrote this ju...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Wayne Rebhorn (tr.) Boccaccio's "Decameron": Book Review

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This handsome edition fulfills the need for a brisk American English version of these hundred tales. This interpreter of Dante a generatio...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Norton Critical Edition): Book Review

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The first baby steps in Italian prose, away from the mystical, the ascetic, the heavenly, the Papacy towards the sensuous, the sexual, the...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Thomas G. Bergin's "Boccaccio": Book Review

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Avuncular in tone, accessible yet scholarly, this survey from the late Yale professor and translator of Dante and Petrarch introduces the ...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Seanré Mhic Eoin 2014

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Bhi Léna agus mise sa ghrianghraf ar feadh an deireadh na tseachtaine seo caite anseo. D'fhreastail muid dinnéar mhór ina Tailte na De...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

A.N. Wilson's "Dante in Love": Book Review

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This English academic turned journalist-novelist combines an explication of Dante's political milieu with an overview of his life and ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Harriet Rubin's "Dante in Love": Book Review

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This popular take on the appeal of the Divine Comedy has been criticized for errors, but it also conveys what Harriet Rubin calls hersel...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

George Holmes' "Dante": Book Review

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Although only a hundred pages, like its counterparts in the Past Masters series from Oxford UP, this contribution by a professor at Oxford...
Friday, October 10, 2014

John Hooper's "The Italians": Book Review

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Hooper, a correspondent for both the Guardian and The Economist , reports as other English journalists have from Italy, guiding us into i...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Italian All-for-One for Dummies: Book Review

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While the name of this series still embarrasses me when I consult one of its titles, I admit they are useful and easy to follow. This as t...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Dianne Hales' "La Bella Figura": Book Review

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Dianne Hales blends her personal story of her love affair with Italian into an engaging, informative presentation. A quarter-century of st...
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Beppe Severgnini's "La Bella Figura": Book Review

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This Italian columnist examines the "sophisticated exhibitionism" endemic to his nation's attitudes. In short chapters, orga...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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