Fracastoro was, like Leonardo, a universal man, and, perhaps for that very reason, has lacked an adequate biography. Rossi is jejune and outdated, and the harvest of Fracastoro's manuscripts is only just beginning. Hence, the old biography of W. P. Greswell, 1801, ed. 2, 1805, still has its uses, for it concentrates almost entirely on Fracastoro as a poet and philosopher and uses many primary t...

For thirteen years I worked as a male secondary English teacher. I had noted that in English departments men were consistently in the minority, usually one or two in a department. Over the years my colleagues " perception was that male English teachers were either exceptionally good or noticeably weak. Therefore, a male English teacher stood out. Moving from school to a University education dep...

Summary The article explores how two early modern Ukrainian preachers, Stefan Javors’kyj and Antonij Radyvylovs’kyj, adapt combine Neoplatonic philosophy, Aristotelian epistemology, the antique, Renaissance idea of poetry painting as sister arts to create pictorial texts that translate some material manifestations contemporary visual culture such emblem into written form; these images – both ve...

The article by Goldberg and colleagues found in this issue is a meticulous history of the changes in incidence and in-hospital and long term case fatality rates of myocardial infarction (MI) for a defined New England community from 1975 to 1995 (1). The authors suggest that there is a decline in the incidence of acute MI as well as in the short term and one-year mortality in survivors postdisch...

Author: Katie Schenk (independent consultant for JLICA) 2122 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Apt 614 Washington DC, 20008 USA Tel: +1 202 468 5537 Email: [email protected] Executive Summary: What have we learnt from evaluations of community OVC programmes? • Approaching twenty years after the first studies drew attention to the issues faced by children affected by HIV, evaluation data from OVC p...