25 FEBRUARY 1989, page 30

The Heart Of The Florentine Renaissance

Noel Malcolm THE LETTERS OF MARSILIO FICINO, VOLUME IX translated by members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London Shepheard-Walwyn, £13.95,......

The Roth Of God Or Roth?

Rhoda Koenig THE FACTS: A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Philip Roth Cape, f11.95, pp.195 F or a satirist, Philip Roth sure wants to be liked — or, as he might put it, 'under-......