Scholar, humanist, and collector Joseph Birdsall Dallett died Saturday, February 6, 2021 in Auburn, New York. His death, following a short illness, occurred at the Finger Lakes Center for Living where he had been a resident since July 29, 2020. Generous, compassionate, curious, and open-minded, he will be greatly missed by his many friends, family members and colleagues.
Joseph was born May 27, 1929 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Francis James Dallett and Christine Louise Newman. He spent his formative years in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where childhood interests in the natural world, music, and languages were early expressions of a lifelong drive to grasp and interpret phenomena as coherent patterns of meaning.
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Itâs long been thought that political satire was born in the coffee houses of 18th century London, where waspish gossip was exchanged,
Tatler was born and cartoons by the likes of William Hogarth and James Gillray ruffled the feathers of the rich and powerful. Now, a historian is suggesting that the tradition in fact had its roots decades earlier than thought, in Dutch propaganda produced for William of Orange at the time of the deposition of Englandâs James II.
The
Times reports on Meredith Haleâs findings, a historian from the University of Exeter, who has carried out the first detailed analysis of the satires (including translating the annotations into English) to show how De Hooghe responded to the rapid unfolding of events in England and the Netherlands. She argues they are the first images that can be classed as modern political satire.