I am really excited for Mike Grosso's book on Saint Joseph of Copertino. (Though I liked the original title, Wings of Ecstasy, better.) The book is an outgrowth of the Esalen conferences on survival of consciousness after death. Quite a few of the participants are historians of religion, and they wanted to cull the annals of mysticism for phenomena that offer support for a Myers/James 'filter-theory' of mind. Grosso has command of both Latin and Italian, and started looking into Saint Joseph's canonization material. There are also quite a few documents that attest to his strange abilities beyond the canonization documents themselves. Grosso prepared a translation of all of these, and the introduction to these translations eventually became this book. I hope the translations are included as an appendix, or are published separately. As a historian myself, there is quite a bit we can do to push the field forward, and I applaud Grosso's efforts here.