Things Noted Here & There
Neil Bartlett reviews Andrew Graham-Dixon's Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane for the Guardian, 24 July;
Teresa Stoppani reviews Deborah Howard's and Laura Moretti's Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics for THE, 22 July; and
Francesca Fiorani reviews Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richardson, eds., The Possessions of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450-1700 for THE, 22 July.
Jonathan Yardley reviews Eric Jaffe's The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America for the Washington Post, 25 July.
Where's Chris Bray, when you need him? Doug Kendall's"The Tea Party Mocks the Founders," Huffington Post, 26 July, argues that, to honor the Founders, the Tea Party must abandon the language of violent confrontation and plot social change by winning elections. As if the Founders fought no Revolution and defeated George III at the polls.
Randall Kennedy,"Honoring Good White People," Slate, 26 July, reviews Bruce Watson's Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy.
Finally, farewell to Frau Inge Keil, a major German historian of astronomy.