The Vatican Palimpsest of Cicero's Verrine Orations

Boerhaave's Orations

Boerhaave's Orations, translated with introductions and notes by E. Kegel-Brinkgreve and A. M. Luyendijk-Elshout, Leiden, E. J. Brill for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, 1983, 8vo, pp. vii, 374, Dfl.96.00. Fahrenheit's letters to Leibniz and Boerhaave, edited, translated, and annotated by Pieter van der Star, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 195, [no price stated] (paperback). Boerhaave ca...

In the Vatican

VATICAN CITY [AP) • Pope John Paul I assumed the throne of St. Peter and leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics yesterday in solemn, outdoor rite marked by the simplicity already a hall-mark of his papacy. Breaking more than 1,000 years of tradition, the 65-year-old pontiff donned a simple white wool stole as the shepherd of his flock and concelebrated his inaugural Mass with the...

The Vatican Versus Freud

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...

The Vatican Archives Project: Description and Methodology

An Enzymatic Palimpsest

According to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, a palimpsest is “a parchment or other surface on which writing has been applied over earlier writing which has been erased.” Scholars are often able to decipher the earlier writing present on palimpsests by using chemical and imaging techniques. In a new study of a key enzyme that’s involved in the biosynthesis of the guanine nucleotides, inos...