Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon ...
It was, Chamfort later quipped, a ‘chastisement for merit and the punishment of talent’. Lilti is adept at teasing out the ways in which contemporaries – both celebrities and their fans – responded to ...