Lanterna Rally

Author: Kristine Louise Haugen

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0674058712

What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue”) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe’s most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.