Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry
Book Review of Lepanto..
Book Review of Perspective Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton, With Explanatory Notes and Commentary, Edited by Dale Ahlquist (2003), Ignatius Press, San Special Issue - 2015 Francisco, USA, pp.124. Dr. Samuel A Nigro M.D* Retired, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Case Western historian malpractice, of insane public relations vapidity, Reserve University School of Medicine, USA and of aNot universal to know crime Don of John all ofeducators--further Austria is proof ofproving complete the incompetence and malfeasance of every Western leader who does *Corresponding author: Dr. Samuel A Nigro M.D, Retired, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2517 Guilford Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118, USA, Tel: 216 932-0575; Email: not mention Don John of Austria at least once in every public wouldpronouncement. be controlling Don usJohn day of and Austria night is everwhy sincewe are the here Battle as we of are...It could be better, but without Don John, the Islamic State Received: August 19, 2015 | Published: October 06, 2015
Lepanto which was fought on October 7, 1571. book--143 lines which tell why you, I and all the world have life, missile” every 3-6 days. It was not the movie Crimson Tide with liberty and“Lepanto” the pursuit is a poem of happiness. from pages Absolutely 11 through astonishing. 17 of this
killingthe dramatic 250 million hesitations Soviets to because fire missiles. they had It nukedwas count the US. down I was to crimeNo novel of those or fiction living everthe freedoms surpasses of reality--and the First Amendment Lepanto is of pure the in“fire missile missile” compartment or “bypass.” and If stillthe hold,“birds I amflew”, sure, we the were world “payback” record reality. Not to know the significance of this, is ignorance and a for non-Rosary Hail Marys. To learn that October 7, the day of amU.S. embarrassedConstitution. thatNOT I HYPERBOLE. never mentioned Sports him heroes? to my Celebrities?children or Rosary ever since was a somber and grateful reminder that Hail grandchildren.Bah! One cannot Where, find aoh better where, hero is there than aDon children’s John of book Austria. about I Marysthe Battle work. of Lapanto, is Our Lady of Victory Day and Feast of the him? A Aftermovie? the poem, explanatory notes from pages 18 to 47 are academic jewels taken from other Chesterton writings which Austria Aon third the commentary,world up to the“The present Aftermath” time--Words by William fail, Cinfici once comprehensively detail any possible dated obscurities due to portrays the impact of the Battle of Lepanto and Don John of our inadequate educations. Such is not necessary, but they are it is still being warred against by the unchanged power-mad Islam intriguing and fascinating elaborations on facts about some of the whichagain, becausenever stops Don metastasizing. John won the battle, but the West has forgotten words and themes in the poem. These 143 notes, one for each line Then Dale Ahlquist provides (in his own words page 8), in the poem give satisfying intellectual impact. “...a piece of bosh trying to pass itself off as literary criticism, Then three commentaries follow. “The Background” by Brandon Rogers lays the political and historical chaos of western delightful epigenetic Chestertonism endemic to members of Europe and the Ottoman Empire (today’s “Islamic State” in the theoffered American by this Chesterton editor in anSociety). attempt Regardless, to fill up somethe ignoring space” (aof sixteenth century)--Western politics has not improved much-
Narcissism, and information (press & media) manipulating the beLepanto a paradigm is explained for literary and analysis “troubadours” in all education, are understood but I digress. among people,-corruption, all reign selfishness, in the absence anti-Catholic of heroic troubadours. bigotry, self-deluded other side effects of poetry. Overall, one finds Ahlquist’s “bosh” to The book closes with two short essays from the master An old military navy man, like myself, trembles when himself: Chesterton’s “The True Romance” about a warrior who reading the second commentary--”The Battle”--a military analysis of the 208 Christian war galleys versus over 380 Ottoman major Don Quixote (an true detached alter ego for the overwelmed “let fought at Lepanto--Cervantes and his psychological recovery: and infantrymen to board the Christian galleys. It was written you imagine the bewilderment of being in charge of the Christian bywar Special galleys Forces and gunColonel ships Buzz containing Kriesel--and over I 100,000 wept memories Janissaries of us try anything” Don John for whom all turned out all right? Can a few military aphorisms I learned: “We’ve got them just where they want us”; as Virgil said: Facilis est descendet Averni (“Easy draft,galleys I think,against of the a historical massed Ottomans?).novelette about The the second outcome essay of issuch “If Don John of Austria Had Married Mary Queen of Scots” which is a factual and imaginary close. Savior,is the descent pilot me”; to hell”);and most then of “Jesus, all, “Grief Savior, is brief--Complete Pilot me./Over yourlife’s a marriage. Regardless, both essays bring “Lepanto” to a pleasing This book is an educational masterpiece both in content mission.”tempestuous But sea./ the Chartemphasis and compasson the Rosary--each come from thee./of the Jesus,over and form, from poetry to history. One’s education is incomplete without it. submarine80,000 Christians in the early at Lepanto 1960s when had one we were and usedat “battle it routinely-- stations put me back as medical officer for the first fleet ballistic missile
Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Citation: Nigro SA (2015) Book Review of Lepanto. 10.15406/ jpcpy.2015.03.00154 .. J Psychol Clin Psychiatry 3(5): 00154. DOI: