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...books caused a bigger stir than the Dictionary. But as the years passed and other dictionaries came out, the great book became overshadowed by the man. How good a dictionary was it? This week, on the sooth anniversary of its publication, Johnsonians could find the answers in two new studies: Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, by James H. Sledd and Gwin J. Kolb of the University of Chicago (University of Chicago Press; $5), and Young Sam Johnson, by James L. Clifford, professor of English at Columbia University (McGraw-Hill...
Last week, Florentines flocked to the scene of Savonarola's execution to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of torch-bearing students past the flower-decked plaque. Orated Mayor Giorgio la Pira, a Christian Democrat: "Fra Girolamo Savonarola characterized Florence . . . as a firm guardian of the spirit of political liberty and as an eternal expression of fraternity and loving-kindness between...
Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, naturalist, writer, was one of the wisest and most universal of men. This spring and summer, to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth, a few remaining fruits of Leonardo's vast labors are being exhibited in England, France, Italy...
...Turning Point." To honor the sooth anniversary of the publication of Volume I of Diderot's Encyclopedic, France has embarked on a year-long series of celebrations. The Archives Nationales de France have published an exact reproduction of Diderot's prospectus. The Bibliotheque Nationale has put on a massive exhibition of his original manuscripts and illustrations. Meanwhile,the Sorbonne has commissioned six monographs on various aspects of the work; and the Ministry...
...that Leonardo squandered the greatest of his gifts-his genius as an artist. Antonina Vallentin concludes, in her excellent biography, that it was the "tragic pursuit of perfection" that kept Leonardo moving restlessly from field to field. First published in the '30s, and re-issued now for the sooth anniversary of Leonardo's birth, the book comes at a natural moment for a valuation of the great Florentine's life & work...