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14th Century Rome (Bettina Colonna, by Michel Durafour; Bobbs-Merrill). A souped-up account of the meteoric political rise and fall of Cola di Rienzo (fact), and how lovely, ruthless Bettina won and lost him (fiction), enlivened by pre-Renaissance skulduggery and dalliance...
This was too much for John Calvin. One Genevan had written his Catholic cousin in France, reproaching him for allowing a heretic like Servetus to live unmolested in Catholic territory. When the cousin asked for details, Calvin gave the documentary proof that Dr. Michel de Villeneuve was indeed Michael Servetus, the man who had denounced the Trinity...
...Unmolested Heretic. Hunted both by the reformers and the Catholic Inquisition (both in Spain and in France), Servetus boldly went to Paris and began a new life, in disguise, as Michel de Villeneuve, editor and physician...
...long, half-won battle, it has never accepted Nietzsche's contention that education in large states must inevitably be mediocre. It has rejected the spirit of Michel de Montaigne's bitter witticism: an inept child should be strangled "if there are no witnesses, or else . . . apprenticed to a pastry-cook in some good town." But harsh reality has often forced it to modify the classical educational concepts in order to give its raw levees of children some simple understanding of the language, of the country and its ideals, and of their duties as citizens...
...Died. Michel Licht, 59, Russia-born Yiddish poet who translated the works of his contemporaries (T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound); of a heart attack; in New York City...