Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4: The 17th and 18th Centuries

Reviewers for this journal are expected to uphold the highest possible professional standards at all times, so the present reviewer’s blackguardly first notion to copy out verbatim K.C. Harrison’s review of Vol. 3 The Renaissance (Reference Reviews 99/228), except for a few essential modifications here and there, had reluctantly to be abandoned. This was a pity since the review would have been authoritative, relevant, well argued and, more to the point, would have spared me the unenviable task of finding different words, and an alternative approach, to arrive at the same general conclusion. On reflection, however, it would no...