Volume 12, Number 2 · January 30, 1969
The Pope's Horoscope
By D.P. Walker
Reflections on Men and Ideas
by Giorgio de Santillana
MIT, 381 pp., $15.00
This book consists of essays, articles, and lectures written by Giorgio de Santillana during the last twelve years, nearly all of them already published in various journals and collective works. I am heartily in favor of this practice. So much valuable work is otherwise effectively buried in periodicals, Fest-schriften, etc. Moreover, such collections can give a more complete picture of the range of a scholar's interests and the consistency of his thought than do his separate books, as is the case, for example, with recent collections of Ernst Gombrich and Karl Popper. Santillana's range is staggeringly wide; as Hugh Trevor-Roper says in his Foreword:
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