a real-life adventure story that made him known as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe, died Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy. He was 85. Nicola Pinna, an Italian journalist who chronicled Mr. Morandi’s story ...

“Robinson Crusoe represented all Defoe’s notions about himself and about man’s fate in the world. His reading of Knox must one day have brought them into sharp focus. Perhaps the popular stir caused ...

Éamon de Valera’s well-known visionary speech of 1943, with its references to “cosy homesteads”, “the romping of sturdy children” and “the laughter of comely maidens”, envisaged ...