An excerpt from The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere by Caroline P.
Murphy. Read last week’s exceprt HERE.
Unlike his predecessor, the new Pope had no ties to Felice and no interest in developing any. For Hadrian, Felice was no treasured memento of Rome’s golden age. She was, rather, a [...]

Sunday’s New York Times Book Review section included a review of The Pope’s Daughter by Caroline Murphy. Here’s the final graph of the review by Bruce Boucher:

Caroline Murphy has recreated Felice della Rovere’s life with agility and tact. She successfully fleshes out the customs and historical background of her Machiavellian princess, even though there [...]

From The Pope’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere by Caroline P.
Murphy. Felice della Rovere (1483? – 1536) was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, a close ally of
Pope Leo X, and one of the most influential women of Renaissance Italy.
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When Felice della Rovere entered the house of Orsini, there was [...]

“The Source of the Singing”
Marilyn Nelson Waniek

Under everything, everything
a movement, slow as hair growth,
as the subtle click of cells turning
into other cells, the life in us
that grows as mountains grow.
Under everything this movement,
stars and wind circle around the smaller
circles of the grass, and the birds caged
in the kitchen sing it over and over,
inexplicably in their [...]

The most recent edition of Tangled Bank, the bi-weekly round-up of the blogosphere’s best science posts, is now up at Cognitive Daily. This edition includes posts on global climate change, monkey lizards of the Triassic and a link to OUPblog’s own “The Tuniit” post (Thanks guys!).
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James T. Patterson will be touring through New York, Chicago and DC in September for his upcoming book Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore.
Restless Giant is the 11th volume in the Oxford History of the United States series
which includes Pulitzer Prize winners Battle Cry of Freedom and Freedom from [...]

Simon Blackburn appeared on WBUR’s “On Point” program last week along with Stanley Fish, Michael Massing and Michael Lynch.
Truth has always been under attack from liars. But now two philosophers argue that the notion of truth itself is being threatened by more sinister opposition.
It began with a cloistered, academic “relativism,” they say. But now [...]

Origins of Value author William Goetzman, Professor of Finance at Yale University, was interviewed on
Marketplace earlier this month. Goetzman describes his work as “financial archaeology” and tells the story of his favorite find: a bond issued in 1648 for the reconstruction of a canal near Utrecht. Purchased by Goetzman’s co-author, K. Geert Rouwenhorst for the [...]

In the comments section of Jill Quadagno’s 08.04.05 post, Gordon Brown wrote:

“Over half of the acclaimed 40,000,000 uninsured are that way by choice. Financial choice that is. The same people that say they can’t afford health
insurance because of family rates between $300 and $700/mo per
family….have between over $1000/mo in auto expenses, the highest
cable/satelite TV package, [...]

America
Henry Dumas
If an eagle be imprisoned
On the back of a coin
And the coin is tossed into the sky,
That coin will spin,
That coin will flutter,
But the eagle will never fly.
- From The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, coming in September. Learn more about Henry Dumas at the Modern American Poets website.
“America” from Knees of Natural Man [...]