«The good comic novel». La narrativa comica di Henry Fielding e l’importanza dell’esempio cervantino analyses the influence of Don Quixote on Fielding’s fiction, starting with a survey reception Spanish novel in England. Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones are analyzed compared novel, from which overtly borrowed some characters, episodes, Cervantes’ parodic strategies. Cervantes’s narrative proceeded ...

In 1963, Joseph Henderson, a non-Mormon from New York, wrote pointed letter to LDS Church apostle Fielding Smith asking him about the racial teachings of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.2 The triggered sharp response Smith, who informed his interrogator that he was “getting little fed up on idea so many people think I am responsible for Negro not holding priesthood.”3 It is easy see why Henderso...

IT HAS BECOME part of the canon of medical history that Girolamo Fracastoro [Hieronymus Fracastorius] (1478-1553) and Jacob Henle (1809-1885) each made fundamental contributions, separated by three centuries, to the understanding of the role of living micro-organisms in the etiology of communicable diseases. Fracastoro published his De contagione . . . in 1546,' only three years after two works...