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February 25, 2005
MMMMmmmm, Amazon...and What I'm Reading
An Amazon box last night. I assure you that clicking on the links benefits me in no way - this is a not-for-gain enterprise of mine. Here's what I got:
Some light Lenten reading from St. Thomas More:
Four Last Things: The Supplication of Souls: A Dialogue on Conscience
The Sadness of Christ - written in the Tower. I have a particular devotion to St. Thomas More - not only is he an interesting character, but I entered the Catholic Church at St. Thomas More parish in Decatur, GA (surely the plainest church in Georgia, but I love it). We had a good print of the Holbein portrait over the door as one left.
A little reading to prep for European Studies 101 in the Fall.
What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem? : Timaeus and Genesis in Counterpoint (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures) - if it were available in paperback I might use it for class reading. GOSH Pelikan was learnèd. I've read about 20 pages so far.
So Euroleft he's easy to read - two from Paul Ginsborg.
A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988
Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State, 1980-2001
These were two of the best books I read while in Rome in 2003. I left those copies with my sister and had to buy replacements. These are really, really, really good; if you are interested in why Italy is the way she is today you can't do better in English. In fact, you can't do much better in Italian - they've been translated into the language; Ginsborg teaches at Florence, anyway. I keep meaning to find some better biographical information for him - he seems to have led a very interesting life.
An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification. The essential reference. I had to use it in French (yep, a book originally published in Stockholm in French about Latin poetry), but I also had to have a copy in English. It's funny, too, if you can imagine such a thing.
Schubert: Winterreise, sung by Brigitte Fassbaender. I don't remember where I read a review of this particular version, but it was wildly positive. I had just heard about 6 of them at a colleague's Winter house concert and had decided you can never own too many versions of the Winterreise.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 25, 2005 4:47 PM