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Michelangelo, by Giovanni Papini. A new biography of the great Florentine; vigorous, often argumentative, almost always absorbing (TIME...
Michelangelo, by Giovanni Papini. A new biography of the great Florentine; vigorous, often argumentative, almost always absorbing (TIME...
...Great Florentine MICHELANGELO (542 pp.)-Giovanni Papini-Dutton...
Giovanni (The Life of Christ) Papini tries to right this excess in his Michelangelo, but sometimes falls into the opposite error-he writes a little patronizingly of the man, almost as if he had paid rent on him. Yet the book gives a vital new contact with one of the fiercest poles of energy in human history...
...Chautauqua, N. Y., famed cultural and religious resort, an Aula Christi (Hall of Christ) contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus. In The Brook Kerith, George Moore, in cadenced prose, had Jesus survive the crucifixion to spend the rest of a long life in retirement...