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Hot on the Trail
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
September 15, 2002| Author:
Reviewed by Nicholas A. Basbanes
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OUT OF THE FLAMES
The Remarkable Story of
A Fearless Scholar, a Fatal
Heresy, and One of the
Rarest Books in the World
By Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
Broadway. 353 pp. $24.95
One of my favorite books about books is an 1895 monograph in which
the prolific British author P. H. Ditchfield endeavored to "record
the woes" of certain people through history who were afflicted with a
condition he called de libris fatalibus. The point of his discourse,
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Heresy, blood and flames...
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; Out Of The Flames by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone Century pounds 12.99 . pounds 10.39 (0870 165 0870) RATING - ADEQUATE The most interesting heretic of the 16th Century died slowly. When the city fathers of Geneva burned Michael Servetus at the stake in 1553, they used green sticks, which take a
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From the Galaxy Of Gaul
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Bishop Spong
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TOUGH-GUY BROWN STILL WANTS TO PLAY
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