I almost skipped Catherine Nicholson's review of "Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance", but the picture was a painting of Felix Platter (1536-1614)—and I live 500 meters from Felix Platter-Spital. The reviewed book is a translation of part of a memoir the influential pathologist and ophthalmologist Platter wrote in 1612 about his youth in the 1550s and 1560s. Decades earlier, he had persuaded his father, Thomas Platter (1499-1582), to write his own autobiography. Felix's much younger half-brother Thomas Platter (1574-1628) also kept a diary from 1595-1600. I look forward to making the time to read these works by the three Platters from my adopted city of Basel. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 3 April 2026)