Abel (biblical), 36
Abraham (biblical), 18
Abraham a Sancta Clara, 95, 97
Adam (biblical), 73
Aeneas (mythological), 17
Amram (biblical), 9
Anthony, Saint, 18
Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Ashurbanipal, 11
Augustine, Saint, 16–17, 21, 44, 46, 87, 94; Dante and, 34, 35, 37–40; on incarnate reading, 113; on memory and expectation in reading, 19–20, 48; Scripture reconciled with pagan classics, 75–76; on words and reading, 72–73
Bate, Jonathan, 80
Beatrice (Beatrice Portinari), 32, 33, 35
Bettelheim, Bruno, 93
Blades, William, 132 n.5
Blake, William, 19
Boethius, 100
Bonaventure, Saint, 16, 39, 40
Borck, Caspar W. von, 81
Borges, Jorge Luis, 78
Botticelli, Sandro, 36
Bradley, A. C., 68–69
Browne, Sir Thomas, 12–13
Browning, Robert, 67
Bulattal, 25
Burckhardt, Titus, 31–32
Byatt, A. S., 116
Cain (biblical), 36
Carey, John, 65–66
Carr, Nicholas, 87–88
Carrión, Rabbi Sem Tob de, 108
Carroll, Lewis, 89
Cassien, Jean, 124 n.35
Cervantes, Miguel de, 105, 106, 116, 119
Chantepie, Mademoiselle de, 111, 112
Chesterton, G. K., 119
Churchill, Winston, 56
Cixous, Hélène, 102
Clamanges, Nicolas de, 80
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 74–75, 78, 81
Colet, Louise, 114
Curtis, Tony, 101
Dahl, Roald, 99
Dante Alighieri, 26, 28–40, 43, 49, 58, 112, 124 n.35; electronic text and, 47; sense of transience and, 44
Derrida, Jacques, 75
Dido (mythological), 17–18, 94
Dürer, Albrecht, 94
Duvet, Jean, 14
Eco, Umberto, 93
Eliot, George, 52
Enkidu (mythological), 27
Enlil (Mesopotamian god), 23, 24
Enmerkar, 11
Eve (biblical), 73
Flaubert, Gustave, 111–14, 119, 133 n.1
Forster, E. M., 45
Frye, Northrop, 72
Galileo Galilei, 33–34
Gérard, Jean Ignace Isidore. See Grandville, J. J.
Gilgamesh (mythological), 21–25, 27, 50
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 59, 82
Goya, Francisco, 105
Gramsci, Antonio, 84–87
Granada, Luis de, 8
Grandville, J. J. (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), 91, 92, 94, 103
Greenblatt, Stephen, 78
Gründgens, Gustav, 67, 82–83
Habakkuk (biblical), 15
Handke, Peter, 62–63
Heraclitus, 7
Herberay, Nicholas de, 92–93, 118
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 81
Herod, King, 9
Hildegard von Bingen, 1
Hippocrates, 57
Hitler, Adolf, 65
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 61
Hubbard, John, 41
Hugo, Victor, 64
Ibn al-Arabi, 42–43
Jacob (biblical), 18
James, C. L. R., 86
James, Henry, 128 n.15
James of Compostela, Saint, 38
Jason (mythological), 36
Jerome, Saint, 58–59
Jochebed (biblical), 9
John, Saint, 12, 14, 15, 100–101
Jung, Carl Gustav, 61
Keller, Wolfgang, 81–82
Kyd, Thomas, 71
Leah (biblical), 127 n.3
Le Goff, Jacques, 78–79
Lennox, Charlotte, 116
Léon, Fray Luis de, 51
Leopardi, Giacomo, 61
Manilius, 32
Mann, Klaus, 82
Mark, Saint, 103
Maupassant, Guy de, 114
Milton, John, 41
Miriam (biblical), 9
Monroe, Marilyn, 101
Montaigne, Michel de, 45, 61–62, 87, 133 n.1
Montreuil, Jean de, 80
Moore, George, 66
Müthel, Lothar, 82
Nashe, Thomas, 71
Naudin, Bernard, 111
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1
Ninurta (Mesopotamian god), 23
Nooteboom, Cees, 42–43, 45, 46
Nuttall, A. D., 81
Olearius, Paul (Jacob Wimpfeling), 94, 96
Ortega y Gasset, José, 66
Pamuk, Orhan, 42
Parker, Dorothy, 101
Pascal, Blaise, 45
Paul, Saint, 99
Petrarch, 44
Philo de Biblos, 16
Pierrot, Alain, 48
Plotinus, 12
Priest, Alexander Barclay, 95
Propertius, 32
Quevedo, Francisco de, 63
Rabelais, François, 61
Rachel (biblical), 127 n.3
Racine, Jean, 99
Riess, Curt, 82
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 64, 87
Sand, George, 115
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 102
Sarzana, Jean, 48
Saturn (Greek god), 56
Seneca, 65
Shakespeare, William, 63, 70, 71, 74–77, 86; ivory tower and, 80, 87; Third Reich and, 81–82
Simeon the Stylite, 57
Sin-leqi-unninni, 23
Slavitt, David, 100
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 111
Socrates, 118
Stendhal, 99
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 49, 94
Stoppard, Tom, 77–78
Thomas à Kempis, 90
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 38, 39, 72–73, 78–79, 127 n.3
Tolstoy, Leo, 116
Ulysses (mythological), 49, 58
Vermeule, Blakely, 118
Vigny, Alfred de, 64
Wandering Jew (legendary figure), 36–37
Weigel, Johann Christoph, 97
Wimpfeling, Jacob (Paul Olearius), 94, 96
Woolf, Virginia, 87