13 DECEMBER 1997, page 54

The Misogynist Who Painted Madonnas

Stephen Pepper THE DIVINE GUIDO: RELIGION, SEX, MONEY AND ART IN THE WORLD OF GUIDO RENI by Richard E. Spear Yale, £40, pp. 430 I t is welcome news that at last Professor......

Clerihew Corner

Whitman Would have made the world's worst hitman. I hear Walter falter behind the raised gun, 'I can't do it. I'm your father, son.' James Michie......

Not A Great Many Brownie Points

C. D. C. Armstrong MAN OF WAR, MAN OF PEACE? THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF GERRY ADAMS by David Sharrock and Mark Devenport Macmillan, i16.99, pp. 488 M an of War, Man of Peace?......