Background
Farina was born, reared and educated in LaPorte, Indiana.
(The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, ...)
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the leading candidate for an alternative Shakespeare. This text presents the controversial argument for de Vere's authorship of the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare, offering the available historical evidence and moreover the literary evidence to be found within the works. Divided into sections on the comedies and romances, the histories and the tragedies and poems, this fresh study closely analyzes each of the 39 plays and the sonnets in light of the Oxfordian authorship theory. The vagaries surrounding Shakespeare, including the lack of information about him during his lifetime, especially relating to the "lost years" of 1585-1592, are also analyzed, to further the question of Shakespeare's true identity and the theory of de Vere as the real Bard.
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Farina was born, reared and educated in LaPorte, Indiana.
He attended Valparaiso University on a baseball athletic scholarship and received his bachelor’s degree with a double major in English and Philosophy in 1978, then a law degree from the same institution in 1981.
That same year he was admitted to the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago, pursuing a full-time career as a real estate analyst that had previously begun in college. In 1989, he was awarded designated membership with the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (today the Appraisal Institute). The following year (1990), Farina was presented with a certificate of merit from the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois for his efforts in the field of historic building preservation.
Then in 2002, he accepted invitational membership with Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society.
Soon after this in 2009, they moved to northern Wisconsin, where they spent the next six years serving in various government-related capacities, before moving back to the Chicago area (Evanston, Illinois) in 2015, where they live and work today. The grandson of Sicilian immigrants on his father’s side, Farina is also a Mayflower descendant (Edward Fuller) from his mother’s family.
Broad contrasts in ethnic and cultural identities frequently characterize his writing style. Writing Spurred by the results of the 2004 elections, Farina resolved to devote spare time to educational activities.
Foremost among these has been a series of books on various scholarly topics, written from a layman’s perspective.
Farina’s first collection, "De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon" (McFarland & Company, 2006), addresses the Shakespeare authorship question. Since then, McFarland had published seven additional works by Farina, the latest being "The Afterlife of Adam Smith: The Influence, Interpretation and Misinterpretation of His Economic Philosophy" (2015). “Patient readers will hopefully have as much fun perusing this survey as I had assembling lieutenant
Since Smith is rarely read by anyone nowadays, and wrote during an epoch so completely different from our own, specific interpretations of his text and attempts at direct application of his ideas to contemporary problems often become a freewheeling, unaccountable business.” (The Afterlife of Adam Smith).
(The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, ...)
Quotations: “Patient readers will hopefully have as much fun perusing this survey as I had assembling lieutenant Since Smith is rarely read by anyone nowadays, and wrote during an epoch so completely different from our own, specific interpretations of his text and attempts at direct application of his ideas to contemporary problems often become a freewheeling, unaccountable business.” (The Afterlife of Adam Smith).