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It'll be interesting if Fr. Thompson discusses the political thought of the Italian republicans--if he does it might be a good counter-balance to the first volume of Quentin Skinner's Foundations of Modern Political Thought. It might be the case that the average citizen of these republics was very religious, but what of the theoreticians and the elites? How Catholic was their theory? And how did their theories change over time? Petrarch, for example, might have been Catholic, but what of his moral and political ideals? Were they more in accord with Catholic moral theology or with pagan classical thought?
Anyways, Amy Welborn also brings us Fr. Thompson's history of sung liturgy. His assessment of the novus ordo and the new liturgy of the hours according to the criterion of "singability" is quite telling.
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