INDEX

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Abruzzi, 217

Abulensis, 88

Acosta, Cristobal, Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, 85

Action Française, 201

Adanson, Michel, 136

Adorno, Theodor, 185; Dialectic of the Enlightenment, 105–6; Minima moralia, 208

Africa: Augustine, 29; cult of martyrs’ relics, 3; Orosius, 29; St. Stephen relics at Uzalis, 28, 29–30

alcoholic beverages, 86–87, 89

Alexandrine age, grammarians, 222

Alonso de Madrigal/Alonso Tostado, 88

Altai Mountains, Central Asia, 95

Altdorfer, Albrecht, The Battle between Alexander and Darius at the River Issus, 205–7, 206fig

Altercatio Ecclesiae contra Synagogam, pseudo-Augustinian treatise, 27

Ambrose, St., 30, 31

Americas: witchcraft, 223. See also New World; United States

Amman, Johann, 91

Ammianus, 137–38

Amsterdam, Spinoza on, 97–98

Amyot, Jacques, 47

Anacharsis, 115–25

anarchism, 161

animals, Voltaire and, 109–12, 113

Ankersmit, F. R., 211–12

Annales, 1, 198, 200, 201, 203

annals, 16–18, 19–21

anthropology, 65; Anacharsis as forerunner, 125; British social, 220; historical, 201; Montaigne as founder, 49; trial records, 55–56, 203; witchcraft, 218

Antioch, Maccabees relics, 31

antiquarianism, 13, 81; Athenian Letters, 122–23; Barthélemy, 5, 118–25; Bellièvre, 51; birth of modern historiography, 67; Gibbon, 125; historiography devalued by, 23; Lancelot du Lac and, 74–75; Mascardi and, 22–23; Momigliano’s “Ancient History and the Antiquarians,” 12–13; Montaigne, 49–52; pedantry, 49; political history and, 16; Robortello, 13, 15–16; traveling, 94

anti-Semitism: Bebel definition, 163; Catholic and socialist, 161; Drumont, 161; France, 5, 161, 162, 165–69; La libre parole, 161, 162; Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 5–6, 151, 159–64. See also Nazism/National Socialists

Antoniano, Silvio, 17, 18, 20

Antoni, Carlo, 173; Dallo storicismo alla sociologia, 170

Arch of Constantine, 23–24

archeology, 95; Herculaneum, 116; paleo-Christian basilica, 27, 28

Ariès, Philippe, 201

Ariosto, Ludovico, 101, 117

Aristotle, 15, 18–19, 73; Orlando Furioso, 45, 46; Poetics, 6, 15, 74, 75; Rhetoric, 8, 16; Trapolino and, 17; unity, 131

Arnaldo da Brescia, 68–69

Arnaud du Tilh (“Pansette”), 56–57, 58, 71

ars historica, 14

Asclepiades, 76–77

Asellio, Sempronius, 16

assassination, 112, 161

Atabalipa, king of Peru, 47, 48fig

Atatürk, Kemal, 104

Atget, Eugène, 185

Athenian Letters, 122–24

Auerbach, Erich, 220; Mimesis, 10, 60, 65–66, 96–114, 137–39, 141; “Philologie und Weltliteratur,” 105; on Stendhal, 4, 96, 138, 140, 141–42, 143, 144–45; on Voltaire, 96–114

Augustine, St., 28, 29–30, 137; Altercatio Ecclesiae contra Synagogam as pseudo-Augustinian treatise, 27; City of God, 30; De mirabilis auditis, 45; De vera religione, 30

Austen, Jane, 71

authenticity: Athenian Letters, 122; Bishop Severus’s letter, 26–28; falseness and, 5–6. See also truth

Avitus, Braga, 29

“bad new things,” 2, 6

Bagnaia, Montaigne and, 42

Balearic Islands, Consentius, 28

Balzac, Honoré de, 96, 137, 138, 140, 143; Comédic humaine, 62–63, 64; Lys dans la valliée, 64

bangue/marijuana/cannabis, 85, 87, 90, 93, 95

barbarians: Anacharsis, 124–25; Lancelot du Lac, 73; Monardes on, 85–86; Montaigne and, 52; Xerxes, 124

Barbaro, Marco/Barbaro chronicle, 134

Baronius, Caesar, 20–21; Annales Ecclesiastici, 20, 21–22, 27; Historia ecclesiastica controversa, 20

Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques, 116–17, 119; La Chanteloupée, ou la guerre des puces contre Mme L.[ouise] D.[duchesse] d.[e] Ch. [oiseul], 119; Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, 5, 115, 117–18

Barthes, Roland, 172–73

Baudelaire, Charles, 140

Baxandall, Michael, 189–90

Bayle, Pierre, 76, 77, 106–7

Bazzoni, Giambattista, Falco della Rupe, o la guerra di Rupo, 63

Bebel, August, 163

Bellièvre, Claude, 51

Bellomo, Agapito, 40

benandanti, 221, 225; Friulian, 127, 203, 221, 222–25; shamans and, 224–25

Benjamin, Walter: Auerbach and, 104, 105; Brechtian maxim, 7; Kracauer and, 184, 186, 191–92; optical unconsciousness, 184; photography essay, 184; reading historical testimonies against the grain, 4; suicide, 184, 191

Benveniste, Emile, 7, 179

Benzoni, Girolamo, La historia del mondo nuovo, 83–84, 86, 88, 89

Bertuccio, Israël, 126–37

Besenval, Pierre Victor, Spleen, 141

Biard, Pierre, 89

Bible: continuity between Old and New Testaments, 30, 31; Diodorus’s history and, 80; synthetic concision, 10; world ranking of best sellers, 159

biography, of historian, 219

Birch, Thomas, 123

Black Death, 165

blacks, Voltaire on, 102–4, 108

Blandina, Christian martyr, 32

Bloch, Marc, 69, 200; Feudal Society, 207; Métier d’historien, 1, 3, 4; Rois thaumaturges, 5, 224

Blumenkranz, Bernhard, 27–28

Boboli Gardens in Florence, 40

Boccioni, Umberto, paintings, 177, 213

Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 101

Bordeaux, Parlement, 35

boredom, Stendhal and, 140, 141, 143, 145

Bounan, Michel, 159, 163–64; Logique du terrorisme, 163

Boyle, Robert, 122

Brach, Pierre de, 35

Braga, 29

Brand, Adam, 91

Braudel, Fernand, 195–96, 198–201, 212; introduction to Traité de sociologie, 195; The Mediterranean, 126, 195

Brecht, Bertolt: “bad new things,” 2, 7; Verfremdung-Effekt, 101

Breidecker, Volker, 185, 186

British Academy, 128

British functionalist anthropology, 32

British Library, 133

Brooks, Jerome E., Tobacco, 87

Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints, 25–27, 32–33

Bruno, Giordano, 117

Brussels, Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Joly), 162

Buontalenti, Bernardo, 40

Burckhardt, Jacob, 117; Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 117

Buridan’s donkey, 226

Byron, Lord, 129–32 Cain, 131–32; Marino Faliero, 129–34

Byzantine emperors: Constantine, 167; Manuel Paleologus, 23

Caesarism, 154

Caillois, Roger, 93, 191; Pontius Pilate, 7–8

Calandra, Filippo, 130

Calendario, Filippo, 135

Calvino, Italo, 197, 212; Il barone rampante, 197; “Memories of a Battle,” 210–11

cannabis/bangue/marijuana, 85, 87, 90, 93, 95

cannibals: Jews, 111; Nacolabsou, 47, 48fig; Storia notturna, 217. See also “On Cannibals” (Montaigne)

capitalism, 182, 201

Caprarola, Montaigne and, 42

Capuana, Luigi, 216–17

Carbonari, Byron and, 130

Carnot, Sadi, 161

Carr, E. H., What Is History?, 177

Casaubon, Isaac, 79, 118

Cassiano dal Pozzo, Museo cartaceo, 22

Cassiodorus, 166

Catherine of Russia, 121

Cato Street conspiracy, Byron and, 130

caves, Asians living in, 38

Ceárd, Jean, 38

censorship: Fascist, 173; Marino Faliero, 132

Cerutti, Simona, 193; La Ville et les métiers, 213

Cesariano, Cesare, 38

Chantraine, Pierre, 9

Chapelain, Jean: De la lecture des vieux romans, 72–76, 78, 80, 81, 82; La Pucelle ou la France delivrée, 82

Charles V, 49

Chartier, Roger, 203

Chastel, André, 38

Chaunu, Pierre, “Un nouveau champ pour l’histoire sérielle: Le quantitatif au troisième niveau,” 199–200

Choiseul, duchess of, 119, 120–21

Choiseul, duke of (Etienne-François de Stainville), 116, 119, 123

Chrétien de Troyes, 75

Christianity: Christian-Jewish conflict, 5, 25–33, 80–81, 161, 165–69; classical doctrine of the separation of literary styles and its transgression by, 60; first universal history written from perspective of, 28–29; miracles, 30; Rome, 23; Savonarola, 14; Swift on, 100; tension between religion and rhetoric, 21; Voltaire and, 99, 111. See also Bible; Protestants

Chrysoloras, Manuel, 23–24

Churchill, Winston, 158

Cicero, 9, 21, 38; and annals, 14, 16, 17, 19; comedy and tragedy, 58–59; De oratore 2, 14

citations: Anacharsis, 118; Annales Ecclesiastici, 21–22; and description, 7–24

civilization, 52; freedom from constraints of, 35, 36

class struggle: witchcraft, 219, 220. See also peasant society

Cobb, Richard, “Zaharoff lecture,” 197–98

coca, 87, 90

Codex Mendoza, Aztec, 49

cold war, 105

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 81–82

collecting, 46–47

College of Cardinals, 17, 20

Collingwood, R. G., The Idea of History, 170

comedy, tragedy and, 58–59

Como, Giovio villa, 49

Compagnon, Antoine, 42

“composite portraits,” 136

conjecture, in historical narration, 67–68, 69–71

Conrad, Joseph, 208, 219

Conrart, Valentin, 81

Consentius, Balearic Islands, 28

conspiracy, 130, 163–64, 225

Constantine: age of, 49; Arch of, 23–24; emperor, 167

Constantinople, 23

constitutions, Joly and, 156

contiguity, 219

Contini, Gianfranco, 220, 221–22

Coras, Jean de, 54; Arrest memorable, 54, 56–60; Planchon intonations, 55, 70; tragedy, 58–60

Corpus Christi College, 123

Correggio, Parma cathedral ceiling, 117

Cortés, Hernán, 49

cosmographers, 47

Council of Carthage, 30

Council of Diospolis, 29

Council of Ten, 135

Coventry, Henry, 123

Cracco Ruggini, Lellia, 28

Cragius, Nicholas, 118

critical detachment, 80–81

The Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 185

Croce, Benedetto, 26, 105, 170–75, 177, 226; Aesthetics, 172; “Antistoricismo,” 171–72; Contributo alla critica di me stesso, 170; History: Its Theory and Practice, 209; “Immaginazione, aneddotica e storiografica,” 68; Logica come scienza del concetto puro, 171; Serra correspondence, 177, 209; “Storia, cronaca e false storie,” 177; “La storia ridotta sotto il concetto generale dell’arte,” 170, 171; Teoria e storia della storiografia, 171–72, 175, 177

Crouzet, Michel, 142, 145

cultural transmission, 225–26

d’Alembert, Jean Le Rond, 109

Dandolo, Giovanni, 133, 134

Danton, Georges Jacques, 139, 144

Davis, Natalie Zemon, The Return of Martin Guerre, 2, 54–60, 70, 211

death, fear of, 182, 183–84

Debord, Guy, 163

de Certeau, Michel, 65, 173; L’écriture de l’histoire, 169, 176–77

deconstructionism, 7

Defoe, Daniel, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, 61, 62

Delavigne, Casimir, Marino Faliero, 128–29, 132

Del Litto, Victor, 142

de Maistre, Joseph, 156–57; Considérations sur la France, 156, 157; Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques et des autres institutions humaines, 157

De Martino, Ernesto, Il mondo magico, 226

Demetrius, On Style, 10

Demetrius of Phalerum, 10

De Michelis, C.G., Il manoscritto inesistente, 160–61

democracy, 158–59

de’ Monaci, Lorenzo, Chronicon de rebus Venetis, 133, 134

demonstratio, 9–10, 11

Descartes, René, 110–11, 221

description, and citation, 7–24

despotism, 158–59, 163

detachment, critical, 80–81

Detienne, Marcel, 72

de Tracy, Destutt, 139, 145; Logique, 149

Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Joly), 6, 151–64

Dialogues of the Dead, 152, 153, 162

Díaz y Díaz, M. C., 28

Dickens, Charles, 187

Dilthey, Wilhelm, 182, 192

Diodorus Siculus, History, 79–80

disjunction, principle of, 186

Divjak, J., 28

Dolly, 114

Domus Aurea, frescoes, 36

Douglas, Mary, Purity and Danger, 26

Dreyfus affaire, 162

Drumont, Edouard, 161–62; La France juive, 161; Le testament d’un antisémite, 161

du Barry, Madame, 119

Duby, Georges, 55; Sunday of Bouvines, 211

du Châtelet, Madame, 107

du Creux, François, 89

du Deffand, Madame (Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond), 118–19, 120–21

Duris of Samos,10

Dyson, Freeman, 114

École Pratique des Hautes Études, 201

ecstatic cults, 223–24, 225

Einaudi publishing house, Turin, 193, 197, 208

Eisenstein, Sergei, 187

ekphrasis, 11–12, 24

ekphrasis-autopsia-parousia, 23–24

Eliot, T. S., 187

Emmius, Ubbo, 118

enargeia, 8–12; citations, 21–22; ekpbrasisautopsia-parousia and, 23–24; evidence vs., 22–23; paintings, 10–11, 18

Enciclopedia italiana, 216

England: Stendhal and, 143; Voltaire and, 96–102. See also British; London

Enlightenment: Auerbach on, 105; Brecht’s Verfremdung-Effekt, 101; Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of the Enlightenment, 105–6; Kant on, 98; Stendhal and, 148; Voltaire and, 106, 113

Estienne, Henri: Apologia pro Herodoto, 78; and Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 14, 76

estrangement, literary: Stendhal, 141; Voltaire, 99, 100, 101, 109–10

ethnocentrism, 201–3

ethnography: emergence of, 52; historical, 125, 202, 204

ethnohistory, 94

ethnology, 199–200, 201

Euclidean veil, 9–10

“euphoria of ignorance,” 216

Euphranor, paintings, 11

Europeans: colonial conquests, 87; ecstatic cults, 225; first European woman to produce a historical work, 123; New World intoxicating and stupefying substances discovered by, 83–95; shamanistic beliefs and practices diffused from Asia to, 225–26; War of the Roses, 121; witchcraft, 218, 223. See also England; France; Nazism/National Socialists

Eusebius, History, 88

evidence, 70; vs. enargeia, 22–23

evil, Voltaire and, 106–7, 112

Evodius, bishop of Uzalis, 29–30

fables: The Fable of the Bees, 104, 110–11; fairy tales, 216–17, 218; and history, 73, 78, 80, 82, 214; Martin Guerre case and, 58; poetry and, 77–78. See also invention

fairy tales, 216–17, 218

fait divers, 196, 198, 213

Falier, Marin, 129–35. See also Marino Faliero

false, 7; nonauthentic/pretense that advertises itself as true, 5–6; true and false history, 76–79. See also fictional narration

“family resemblances,” 136

Fascism: Croce essay vs., 171–72, 174; Gentile, 173, 174, 175; Gramsci on, 127; University of Turin loyalty oath, 217; White and, 175, 176. See also Nazism/National Socialists

Fauchet, Claude, 81; Origine des dignitez et magistrats de la France, 75; Recueil de l’origine de la langue et poésie françoise, ryme et romans, 75

Faurisson, Robert, 175, 176; Les assassins de la memoire, 169

Febvre, Lucien, 200

Fellini, Federico, 70

Fenelon, Aventures de Telemaque, 117, 118

fiction: and history, 18, 21, 115–25, 128, 131–36, 169–70; and reality, 136, 138, 187; religious, 79, 81; and truth, 18, 21, 139–40. See also fictional narration; invention

fictional narration: and historical narrations, 2, 4, 5, 8, 65, 67, 72–82, 115–25, 128. See also fiction; novels

Fielding, Henry, 65, 71; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 61–62

Fieschi, Gianluigi, 22

Figaro, 161–62

film, 181–86, 191. See also photography

filters, cultural, 86–89

Finley, Moses, 72

Finno-Ugric sphere, 225

Fiore, Domenico, 145

Flaccus, Verrius, 16

Flaubert, Gustave: L’éducation sentimentale, 187–91; Kracauer and, 187–91, 192; Madame Bovary, 115, 187, 188; Salammbô, 187–88

Fontanabuona, 212

Fontenelle, Bernard Bovier de, 155; Nouveaux dialogues des morts, 153

Foucault, Michel, 172

fountains, 40

France: architecture, 42; Carnot assassination, 161; Dreyfus affaire, 162; French language, 73; French Revolution, 131; Jews persecuted, 5, 161, 162, 165–69; July Revolution (1830), 140, 142, 143, 145; Napoleon, 141, 145, 151–62, 198; Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 161; Restoration, 140, 142, 143, 145; Serlio, 41–42; Third Republic, 189. See also Paris

Franciscans, 47

Francis I, 41

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 182

Frankfurt School, Kracauer and, 180

Frazer, J. G., 224

“free direct discourse,” 143–44, 146–47, 150

freedom from constraints of civilization, 35, 36

French language, Lancelot du Lac and, 73

Freud, Sigmund, 219

Friulians: benandanti, 127, 203, 221, 222–25; Protestant Reformation, 203

Froissart, Jean, 76

Frugoni, Arsenio, Arnaldo da Brescia nelle fonti del secolo XII, 1, 68–69, 210

Furet, François, 203, 204; “Histoire et ethnologie,” 199–202

Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis, 191

Futurism, 173–74, 177

Gaillard, Gabriel Henri, Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l’Angleterre, 121

Galiani, Ferdinando, Dialogue sur le commerce des bleds, 152

Galileo Galilei, 45, 46, 212

Galton, Francis, 136, 158

Gamaliel II, patriarch of Jerusalem, 31

Gamaliel relics, 29, 30

Garcia da Orta, 85

Geertz, Clifford, Deep Play, 126

Gellius, Aulus, Noctes Atticae, 16, 42–43

genre, 152–53

Gentile, Giovanni, 171–76; (“La filosofia della praxis”), 173; Il superamento del tempo nella storia, 171; Teoria generale dello spirito come atto puro, 171–72

Georgi, Johann Gottlieb, 91

Gervasius, relics, 30

Gettysburg, battle of, 194

Giard, Luce, 169

Giazza, Stefano (“Gisello”), 134

Gibbon, Edward, 13, 62, 67, 70; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 67–68, 125

Ginori, Carlo, 121

Ginzburg, Carlo: I benandanti: The Night Battles, 127, 203, 222–25, 227; The Cheese and the Worms, 203, 204–5; “Spie,” 2; Storia notturna, 203, 217, 220, 222–27

Ginzburg, Leone (father), 217–18, 226

Ginzburg, Natalia (mother), 218; Inverno in Abruzzo, 217; “personal doctrine of natural law,” 226

Giovanni da Udine, 43

Giovio, Paolo: Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium, 47–49, 50fig; Elogia virorum litteris illustrium, 47–49; Museo Gioviano, 47–49

Gmelin, Johann Georg, 91

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Elective Affinities, 136, 146–47

Golden Age, 35, 36, 38–40

Gombrich, E.H., 10; Art and Illusion, 65–66

Gondi, Paul de, 82

Gonzaga family, 41, 43

Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Luis, 196, 198–99, 212; “El arte de la microhistoria,” 195; Invitacion a la microhistoria, 195; Nueva invitacion a la microhistoria, 195; Pueblo en vilo: Microhistoria de San Jose de Gracia, 194–95, 196; “Teoria de la microhistoria,” 195

grammarians, 14; Alexandrine age, 222; Flaccus, 16; Gellius, 42; on true and false history, 76–77, 80. See also philology

Gramsci, Antonio, 127; Prison Notebooks, 173, 220

Granet, Marcel, 215

Graves, Philip, 159–60

Greece: Athenian Letters and, 122; Barthélemy and, 117–18, 121–22; historians, 10, 12, 22, 23; humanists, 18; Olympic games, 124; skeptics, 13

Grendi, Edoardo, 197, 213

Grévy, Jules, 151

Griaule, Marcel, 100

Griffet, Henri, Traite des differentes sortes de preuves qui servent à éitablir la verité de l’histoire, 168

Griffith, D.W., 187

Gronovius, Johann Frederik, 118

“grotesques,” 36–38, 43

Guerre, Martin, 71; Arnaud du Tilh impersonating, 56–57; Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre, 2, 54–60, 70, 211; wife Bertrande, 56–57, 59, 71

Guiccioli, Teresa, 130

guild, historians, 1

Guillaume de Loris, 81

Gurvitch, Georges, Traité de sociologie, 195

Hakluyt, Richard, 49

hapax, 202

Hartog, François, 65–66, 69

hashish, 94

Heberden, William, 122–23

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 105, 187; idealism, 173; Phenomenology, 198

Heidegger, Martin, 176; templum-tempus, 214

Hellenistic age, 10

Herculaneum, archeology, 116

Herodotus, 12, 23–24, 66, 124, 199; on Scythians, 65, 88, 93, 94, 124; veracity of, 78, 79

Hervet, Gentian, 76

Hessel, Franz, 184

Hesychius, 119

Hillgarth, J.N., 27, 28

Hippocrates, 122–23

histoire philosophique, 13, 125

historical anthropology, 201

“historical laboratory,” 55, 70

historical materialism, 173

historical narration, 57–58, 60–69, 204–5; conjecture in, 67–68, 69–71; description–vividness–truth, 12; fictional narrations and, 2, 4, 5, 8, 65, 67, 72–82, 115–25, 128; historical research and, 170; and reality, 69–70, 137–38, 177–78; research in disjunction with, 26; rhythms of, 61–62; subjectivity, 1, 3; testimonies, 3–4

historical perspective, idea of, 80–81

historicism, 226; Auerbach and, 138, 143; Benjamin and, 192; Gentile and, 171–72, 174; history and, 181–83; Kracauer critique, 182–84, 192

historiography: Annales, 1, 198, 200, 201, 203; and anthropology, 56; antiquarianism and devaluation of, 23; “antiuniversalism,” 128; ars historica, 14; Artis historicae penus on the historical method, 13, 14; biography of historian and, 219–20; birth of modern, 67; criterion of two witnesses, 168; critique of language of, 67; ekphrasis, 11–12, 24; film and, 183; functional-structural approach, 199; Gibbon as founder of modern, 125; histoire philosophique combined with, 125; “historiographical agnosticism,” 69; history creating, 171, 173; “history of historiography without historiography,” 26; history not a presupposition of, 171; innovators vs. traditionalists, 126–27; Marxist, 128; modernization of, 126; new type, 10; passions and interests, 121; “philological-combinatory method,” 67–69; political history and antiquarianism, 16; “‘positive’ historical inquiry” vs. “proper history,” 175; postmodern, 211–12; primary vs. secondary sources, 12; proof, 168; “realistic,” 65–66; reality and ideology, 66; “reality” and “possibility,” 57; scientific character of, 65; subjective component, 3; witchcraft, 218. See also historical narration; history

history: annals and, 16–18, 19–21; as conspiracy, 163; creating historiography, 171, 173; cult of saints, 30; ecclesiastical, 22–23; ethnographic, 125, 202, 204; and ethnology, 199–200; false, 76–79; and fiction, 18, 21, 115–25, 128, 131–36, 169–70; historicism and, 181–83; “history of historiography without historiography,” 26; law and, 168; local, 194–95, 199, 212; of manners, 76; memory and, 179; metaphysical theory of, 171; of microhistory (term), 193–97; and morphology, 226–27; nouvelle histoire, 200–201; novels and, 61–71, 137, 138, 145, 188–89; and philosophy, 13, 78, 125, 171; philosophy of, 67, 189, 191; and photography, 181–86, 190–91; and poetry, 13, 14–15, 17–18, 77–78, 82, 137; rhetoric and, 10, 12, 14–16, 18, 20–21, 24; Sanguinetti’s “archhistory,” 214; serial, 200, 202, 203; social, 126; structure or, 226; true, 76–79, 213. See also historiography; microhistory

Hobsbawm, Eric, 219–20; Interesting Times, 126–27; “Manifeste pour l’histoire,” 128; “Per la storia delle classi subaltern,” 220; Primitive Rebels, 219–20

Holocaust: Auschwitz, 169, 178; revisionist interpretation, 167, 169, 175–76

Homer: Barthelemy poem and, 119; fictions, 80; historical elements in, 72, 73; Iliad, 10, 11, 74; in media res, 15; Lycurgus compared with, 156; truthfulness, 8–9

Horace, 98, 194

Horkheimer, Max, Dialectic of the Enlightenment, 105–6

Huguenots, 47

Hungary, ecstatic cults, 225

Hyde, Edward, History of the Rebellion, 61

idealism, 171, 172–73

identity, 219

ignorance, “euphoria of,” 216

impassibility, Flaubert, 189

Indians, smoking, 84–86, 88–89, 90, 92–93

inquisitorial trials, 2, 202–3, 220–25; Chiara Signorini, 220; Menichino della Nota, 221, 222–23

intarsia, 45

internationalism, 105

Internet, 163

interpretations, traces and, 4

intoxicating and stupefying substances, 83–94

invention, 7; Athenian Letters, 123–24; dangerous, 131–32; Dialogues of the Dead, 152–53; film, 187; fire, 38; “historian does not invent, but explains,” 13, 14; historical mythology, 127; history and novel, 63–64, 70–71; Lancelot du Lac, 73–76; Marino Faliero, 132; Martin Guerre case, 57; microhistory and, 207, 214; narrative, 102, 117; and reality, 157, 209–10; saints lives, 3; by Thucydides, 14. See also fables; fiction

Isarello, Bertuccio, 134–36

Isbrants Ides, E., 91

Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, 16

Istanbul: Auerbach, 97, 104, 105, 141; Times of London, 159–60

Italian Cinquecento, 117

Italian Communist Party, 220

Italian philosophical neo-idealism, 172–73

Italian Quattrocento painters, 189–90

Italian Renaissance, 117

Jakobson, Roman, 220

James, Henry, 71

Jamnitzer, Werner, 40–41

Jean de Meun, 81

Jedin, Hubert, 207

Jerome, St., 21

Jerusalem: bishop of, 30; patriarch of, 31; praefectura honoraria title, 31; relics from tombs near, 29, 30, 31

Jews: Auerbach, 104; Black Death and, 165; Christian-Jewish conflict, 5, 25–33, 80–81, 161, 165–69; in Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Joly), 163; exterminated, 5, 165–69, 175–76, 178; Ginzburgs, 217, 219; Holocaust, 167, 169, 175–76, 178; Jotapata, 166, 167, 168; Kracauer and, 185; La Baume, 165, 168; lepers and, 165–66; mass suicides, 166–68; patriarch of Jerusalem, 31; persecuted, 5, 161, 162, 165–69; Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 5–6, 159–64; revisionist interpretation, 167, 169, 175–76; surviving witness, 5, 165; Vitry-Le-François, 166, 167, 168; Voltaire and, 111, 112; witchcraft and, 219. See also anti-Semitism

John Chrysostom, St., 31

John II, bishop of Jerusalem, 30

Jolles, André, 5

Joly, Maurice: Le barreau de Paris: Études politiques et littéraires, 156–57; Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, 6, 151–64

Josephus, Flavius, The Jewish War, 166–67, 168

Jotapata, Jews, 166, 167, 168

Jouin, Ernest, 160 Joyce, James, 61

justice, Voltaire and, 107

Justinian Code, 167

Kaempfer, Engelbert Amoenitatum Exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, 93

Kafka, Franz, 182

Kant, Immanuel, 98, 186; The Critique of Pure Reason, 185

Kantorowicz, Ernst, 194

Keller, Gottfried, 97

knowing, as recognizing, 222–23

Koch, Gertrud, 180–81

Kojève, Alexandre, 198

Kracauer, Siegfried, 4, 180–92; close-up, 186, 191, 192, 207; death, 207; exile, 181, 185; From Caligari to Hitler, 207; History: The Last Things before the Last, 180–86, 189, 191, 207–8; “law of levels,” 207; Marseilles, 184, 191; microhistory and macrohistory, 189, 191, 192, 207–8, 213; Die Ornament der Masse, 182; Theory of Film, 181, 183, 185, 207

Kris, Ernst, 40–41

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 180, 207; Iter Italicum, 133, 181

La Baume, Jews massacred, 165, 168

Lablache, Louis, 142

La Calprenède (Gauthier de Costes), Cléopatra, 120–21

Lafitau, Joseph-François, Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparies aux moeurs des premiers temps, 90, 91, 93

Lambardo, Jacobello, 134

La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 12; Cinq dialogues faits à l’imitation des anciens, 81; Du peu de certitude qu’il ya dans l’histoire, 77; Jugement sur les anciens et principaux historiens grecs et latins, dont il nous reste quelques ouvrages, 77–80

Lancelot du Lac, 72–76, 80, 81

language: French, 73; of historiography, 67

Lapland: ecstatic cults, 225; magicians, 92

La Rochefoucauld, 109

Lascaris, Janus, 18

Latour, Bruno, 215

law, 154; criterion of two witnesses, 167–68; genre, 152–53; and history, 168; justice, 107; “law of levels,” 207; Maccabees and, 32; nature, 35, 36, 52, 112, 154, 226; symmetry, 43

Lazzarini, Vittorio, 134–35

Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 98

Lefebvre, Georges, La grande peur de 1789, 5

Le Fèvre, Chantereau, 75

Le Goff, Jacques, “Histoire et ethnologie,” 199–200, 201, 202

Leo X, century of, 116, 117, 123

lepers, 165–66

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, 86, 200; Montaillou, 200, 211

Léry, Jean de, 47

Le Sueur, Guillaume, Admiranda historia, 56, 58, 59

Lettres persanes, 101, 124

Leuilliot, Paul, 195

Levi, Carlo, Christ Stopped at Eboli, 217–18

Levi, Giovanni, 193, 197, 211, 213; L’eredità immateriale, 213

Levi, Primo, 165, 179; The Periodic Table, 197; suicide, 197

Levin, Tom, 186

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 199, 203, 220, 224, 225–26

La liberté, 161

libertine, learned, 79

La libre parole, 161, 162

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 136

Ligurian valley, 212

Lisbon earthquake (1755), Voltaire and, 106–7, 109

literary narratives: Furet and, 204. See also fictional narration; poetry

Livy, 12, 16, 80; De cades, 17–18; Lancelot du Lac and, 74

local history, 194–95, 199, 212

London: Stock Exchange, 96–98, 100, 101, 105, 109, 110, 113; Times Literary Supplement, 127; Times of, 159–60

Louis XIV, 81

Louis XV, 119

loyalty oath: University of California, 194; University of Turin, 217

Lucan, 77

Lucian of Samosata, 16, 119, 124; Dialogues of the Dead, 152, 153

Lucianus (priest), 29, 31

Lycurgus, 156

Lyotard, Jean-François, 178

Mabillon, Jean, 73

Maccabees, 31–32

Machiavelli, Niccolå: in Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Joly), 152–58, 160, 164; Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio, 98; Discorsi sulla prima deca di Tito Livio, 156, 157; Prince, 158

macrohistory, and microhistory, 128, 186, 189, 191, 198, 207, 212–14

Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 115, 187

Magritte, Rene, 8

Mandeville, Bernard: De brutorum operationibus, 110–11; The Fable of the Bees, 104, 110–11

Mannerism, 4–5, 45–46

Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine emperor, 23

Manuzio, Aldo, 17

Manuzio, Paolo, 17, 18–19

Manzoni, Alessandro, 69; I promessi sposi, 63, 64, 71; Lettre å M. Chauvet, 70–71; On the Historical Novel, 63–64, 67–68

Marana, Gian Paolo: l’Espion turc, 101; L’esploratore turco, 124

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 99

marijuana/bangue/cannabis, 85, 87, 90, 93, 95

Marino Faliero: Byron, 129–34; Delavigne, 128–29, 132

Martin, Jean, 38

Martineau, Henri, 142

martyrium: Maccabees and, 32. See also relics

Marvell, Andrew, 104

Marville, Charles, 185

Marx, Karl: La filosofia di Marx, 173; Theses on Feuerbach, 173

Marxism: historiography, 128; Italian Communist Party, 220; materialism, 173

Masada, siege of, 166, 167

Mascardi, Agostino, Dell’arte historica, 22–23

materialism, praxis and, 173

matria history, 195

Maurras, Charles, 201

Maximus of Tyre, 90, 93

Mazarin, Cardinal, 77–78

McCarthy era, 194

Medici, Catherine de’, 162–63

Medici villa, Pratolino, 40

Meiners, Christoph: Grundriß der Geschichte aller Religionen, 91–92; “On the Mysteries of the Ancients, and in Particular on the Eleusian Secrets,” 92

melancholy, 143, 185, 192, 197

Mélanges, 199

Mela, Pomponius, De orbis situ, 88, 89, 90, 93 memory, 210–11; historicism and, 182; history and, 179

Ménage, Gilles, 72–74, 75–76, 81

Mérimée, Prosper, 131, 147–48

Messerschmidt, Daniel Gottlieb, 91

messianicism, Kracauer and, 191

Métraux, Alfred, 47

Meuli, Karl, Scythica, 94–95

Meursius, Johannes, 118

Michelangelo: Prigioni, 40; St. Peter dome, 117

Michelet, Jules, 117, 138; History of France, 188–89, 190

Mickiewicz, Adam, 94

microhistory, 193–214; and close-up, 207; histoire événementielle, 195; histoire universelle, 196; history of term, 193–97; Italian, 193, 196–97, 198–99, 201, 212–13, 214; macrohistory and, 128, 186, 189, 191, 198, 207, 212–14; and microanalysis, 197; monographic research, 207; vs. petite histoire, 195, 198, 199

Microstorie series, 193, 208, 211

Middle Ages: discovery of, 73, 81; Jews persecuted, 166–67; legality of two witnesses, 167–68

Migne, Jacques Paul, Patrologia Latina, 27, 28

Milan, relics of martyrs, 30

Minorca: Bishop Severus’s letter, 5, 26–28, 29, 32; Christian-Jewish conflict, 5, 25–33; “clean” and “unclean” power, 26; Orosius, 29; paleo-Christian basilica, 27, 28; St. Stephen relics arriving, 25, 26, 29, 32; Theodore (defensor civitatis), 25, 27

Mirabeau-Martel, countess of (Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette), 162

miracles: Augustine and, 30. See also St. Stephen relics

Mocenigo, Alvise, 19–20

Modena, Archivio di Stato, 220

modernization theories, 199, 201

Momigliano, Arnaldo, 2, 7, 66, 67; “Ancient History and the Antiquarians,” 12–13; “history of historiography without historiography,” 26

Monardes, Nicolas, Primera y secunda y tercera partes de la historia medicinal, 84–85, 87, 92–93

Le Monde Diplomatique, 128

Monluc, Jean de, 58

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, 76

Montaigne, Michel de, 34–52; antiquarian, 49–52; common human condition, 60; “Des boyteux,” 54; Essais, 34–45; Journal de voyage en Italie, 38, 40, 41, 42, 49; Mannerism, 4–5, 45–46; “On the Custom of Dressing,” 35; Que sais-je, 149; Vatican Library visit, 49–51. See also “On Cannibals” (Montaigne)

Montesquieu: in Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Joly), 152–58; Esprit des lois, 153; Lettres, 124

Montfaucon, Bernard de, 73

Monthly Review, 122, 123

Mülder-Bach, Inka, 180–81

Müller, Johann Bernhard, 91

Muratori, Ludovico Antonio, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 132–33

Musil, Robert, 70, 204

Muslim kings, Tunis and Granada, 166

Nacolabsou, king of the Promontory of Cannibals, 47, 48fig

nakedness: Montaigne and, 35; Salomon and, 36

Namier, Lewis, 207, 211

Napoleon I (Bonaparte, N.), emperor, 141, 144–45, 162, 198, 205

Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte), emperor, 151–58, 160–62

narodniki, 217

narration, 57–58, 60–61; “free direct discourse,” 143–44, 150; literary, 204; thread, 1. See also fictional narration; historical narration

nationalism: dictatorships, 105; Turkish, 104

nature, law of, 35, 36, 52, 112, 154, 226

Nazism/National Socialists: Auerbach and, 97, 104, 105; and Ginzburgs, 217; Holocaust, 167, 169, 175–76, 178; and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 160; revisionist interpretation, 167, 169, 175–76; Voltaire and, 97, 104

Necker, Jacques, Sur la legislation et le commerce des grains, 120

Needham, Rodney, 136

New German Critique, 180

New Monthly Magazine, 129

Newton, Isaac, 122

New World, 45; Apologia pro Herodoto and, 78; intoxicating and stupefying substances, 83–90; Montaigne and, 47, 52; Museo Gioviano, 49. See also Indians

New York Stock Exchange, 113

Nicodemus relics, 29, 30

Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 94

Nietz sche, Friedrich, 177, 195

Nilotic mosaic, Palestrina, 116

nouvelle histoire, 200–201

novels: birth of, 60; and history, 61–71, 137, 138, 145, 188–89; and reality, 138, 187;

truth in, 139–40

I novissimi anthology, 214

“On Cannibals” (Montaigne), 4–5, 34–35, 38–40, 43–45, 46; barbarians and, 52; Brazilian songs, 49; nakedness, 35; otherness, 49, 52–53

On the Sublime, 9

opium, 85, 87, 90

Oratory of San Filippo Neri, 20, 21

Origen, 31

Orosius, Paulus, Historiarum Adversus Paganos libri VII, 28–29

Ossetians, 65

Ostiacks, 91

“otherness,” 49, 52–53, 66, 84

Ovid: La métamorphose d’Ovide figurée, 36, 37fig; Metamorphoses, 36, 58, 158

Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernández de, Historia general y natural de las Indias, 88–89, 90

Padua, 16, 17–18

paintings: Altdorfer, 205–7, 206fig; battle of Mantinea, 11; Boccioni, 177, 213; enargeia, 10–11, 18; Euphranor, 11; “grotesques,” 36–38, 43; Italian Quattrocento, 189–90; Magritte, 8; narrative comparable to, 45

Palazzo del Te, Mantua, 41, 41fig, 43

Palchonius, bishop of Braga, 29

paleography, 51

Palestrina, Nilotic mosaic, 116

Palissy, Bernard, 40–41; Architecture et Ordonnance de la grotte rustique de Monseigneur le duc de Montmorency connestable de France, 42

Palladio, Andrea, 18

Pandects, 13

Panofsky, Erwin, 45, 46, 186

Paris: anti-Fascist émigrés, 217; Bibliotheque Nationale, 167; Marino Faliero performed in, 129; rebellion (May ’68), 163; traces formulated for the first time, 4

Parlement: Bordeaux, 35; Toulouse, 56, 80

Pascal, Blaise, 149

Pasquier, Etienne, Recherches de la France, 74–75

Paul de Brebeuf, 86–87

peasant society, 217–18, 220, 223–24

Pelagius, 29

Peter the Great, 91

petite histoire, 195, 198, 199

Petrarch, 117

Peucer, Caspar, 92

Philarchus, 10

Philip Neri, St., 20, 21

philology: art of “slow reading,” 220; conflict between anomaly and analogy, 222; Romance, 220, 221–22. See also grammarians philosophes, 99, 103, 125

philosophy: and history, 13, 78, 125, 171; of history, 67, 189, 191

Philostratus the Younger, Images, II photography, 181–91. See also film

Pickett, Edward, 194

Pico, Gian Francesco, Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium, 14

Piedmontese weavers, 212

Piero della Francesca, 212

Pike, K.L., 26

Planchon, Roger, 55, 70

Plato, 45, 222; Statesman, 10; Timaeus, 80

Plautus, Amphitrion, 58

Plutarch, 153; De gloria athenensium, 11; Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 47

poetry: history and, 13, 14–15, 17–18, 77–78, 82, 137; Montaigne and, 38

political history, and antiquarianism, 16

political philosophy, passions contrasted with interests, 121

politics: democracy, 158–59; Ginzburgs, 217; McCarthy era, 194; social movements (‘60s), 127. See also Fascism; Marxism

Poliziano, Angelo, Miscellanea, 51

Polybius: Histories, 78–79; Universal History, 8–9 324

“polythetic” series, 136

Pomponazzi, Pietro “Peretto,” 18–19, 20; “booklet,” 17–18, 20

Pope, Alexander: “All is well,” 107; Essay on Man, 109

populism, 217, 218

Porphyry, De abstinentia, 110

Portuguese travelers, 38

positivism: “critical,” 171; Croce vs., 170; Frugoni and, 210; Gentile vs., 174; Serra vs., 178, 210; skepticism, 3; thoughtless, 7

possibility: and reality, 57; and truth, 69–70

postmodernism: Calvino, 211; historiography, 211–12; history and fiction, 128; Hobsbawm on, 127; skepticism, 2–3, 212

Potocki, Count Jan: Histoire primitive des peuples de la Russie, 93–94; Manuscrit trouve a Saragosse, 93

Pratolino grotto, 40, 42

praxis: Marxist, 173; philosophy of, 173

progress, notion of, 192

Propos de Labienus, 161, 162

Protasius, relics, 30

Protestants: Annales Ecclesiastici vs., 20; Reformation, 203

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 5–6, 151, 159–64

Proust, Marcel, 70, 187, 204; The Guermantes Way, 183–84; Kracauer and, 4, 183–85;

Recherche, 139

psychology, 226–27

Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 186, 191

Pulci, Luigi, 101

Pyrrhonism, 13, 14; historic, 76, 77

Pyrrhus, shield of, 11

Quakers, Voltaire on, 99

Queneau, Raymond: Exercices de style, 204; Les fleurs bleues, 196, 197, 207, 214; Une histoire modele, 198; Petite cosmogonie portative, 197; “Zaharofflecture” dedicated to, 197–98

Quinoni, Dayas, 165, 168

Quintilian, 12; Institutio Oratoria, 9, 12

racism: Voltaire and, 103, 106. See also anti-Semitism; blacks

Raggio, Osvaldo, Faide e parentele, 212

Ramella, Franco, Terra e telai, 212

Ranke, Otto, 169

Raphael, Vatican Stanze, 117

Raslovlev, Mikhail, 160

realism, 65–66; atmospheric, 138; Auerbach and, 96, 138; Croce, 171, 172; Flaubert, 188

reality, 7; Auerbach and, 137–38; “effect of reality,” 8; extermination of Jews and, 165, 169, 175–76; and fiction, 136, 138, 187; and historical narration, 69–70, 137–38, 177–78; and ideology, 66; invention and, 157, 209–10; and “possibility,” 57; right-wing, 174; social, 137; Spirit creating, 173, 174–75. See also truth

The Red and the Black (Stendhal), 4, 128–29, 132, 139–48

relativism, 211–12; “positivist historical inquiry” and, 178; White, 174, 176

relics: Gamaliel, 29, 30; martyrs’ relics, 30; Nicodemus, 29, 30; seven Maccabees and their mother, 31; tombs near Jerusalem, 29, 30, 31. See also St. Stephen relics

religion: Augustine’s De vera religione, 30; civic, 98; comparative, 91–92; fictions, 79, 81; Gentile and, 174; intoxicating and stupefying substances and, 90; rhetoric and, 21; Tupinamba, 47; Voltaire and, 98–100, 112; Wars of Religion, 146, 152. See also Christianity

revisionist interpretation, Holocaust, 167, 169, 175–76

revolutions, White vs., 174

Revue des Deux Mondes, 187

rhetoric: enargeia, 9, 18; history and, 10, 12, 14–16, 18, 20–21, 24; religion and, 21

Rhetorica ad Herennium, 9

Robertson, William, History of America, 120, 121

Robortello, Francesco, 20, 76; commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics, 15; De historica facultate disputatio, 13–16; De nominibus Romanorum, 15

Rollin, Henri, L’Apocalypse de notre temps, 161–62, 163

Roman de la Rose, 75

Romano, Giulio, 41, 41fig, 42, 43

Romanticism: philologists, 220, 221–22; Stendhal and, 148

Rome: Barthélemy, 116, 118–19, 123; Chrysoloras, 23; historians, 12; Mascardi’s Dell’arte historica, 22; relics of the arches of Constantine and Septimius, 22; senators, 99; Speroni’s Dialogo della Istoria, 17

Romieu, Auguste, 154; Le spectre rouge de 1852, 154

Rostovzeff, Michael I., 69

Rostow, W.W., ’99

Russia: Catherine of, 121; empire, 92; explorers from, 91; folklore, 65; formalists, 83–84; October revolution, 159; populism, 217; Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 5–6, 151, 159–64; Siberian shamans, 91–92, 94

“rustic style,” 40–42, 43

Sade, Marquis de, Francais, encore un effort si vous voulez etre republicains, 112

Saint-Denis, convent, 166, 167

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 139

St. Peter dome, 117

saints: cult of martyrs’ relics, 30; history of cult of, 30; stereotype, 32. See also Ambrose; Augustine; Jerome; John Chrysostom; Philip Neri; Stephen

Saint-Simon, 4; Memoires, 3, 183–84

St. Stephen relics, 25–31; De revelatione corporis sancti Stephani, 29, 30; Liber de miraculis sancti Stephani protomartyris, 28, 29

Salius brothers, 81

Salomon, Bernard “le petit Salomon,” 36, 37fig

Salter, Samuel, 123

Salvagnoli, Vincenzo, 141

Sanguinetti’s “archhistory,” 214

San Jose de Gracia, 194–95

Sanudo, Marin, Vite dei dogi, 132–33

Sarasin, Jean-François, 72–73, 75

Satyre Menippee, 152

Saulnier, V.-L., 115

Savonarola, Christianity of, 14

Saxer, Victor, 30

Saxo Grammaticus, 76

Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 22

Scarpa, Domenico, 213, 214; Le poesie e prose scelte, 214

Schatzmiller, Joseph, 165

Scheffer, John, 92

Schilling, Georg, 187

Schmitt, Carl, 158

science: microhistory and, 214; scientific character of historiography, 65

Scythians: Anacharsis, 117, 118, 124–25; du Creux and, 89; Herodotus on, 65, 88, 93, 94, 124; Maximus of Tyre on, 90, 93; Meuli on, 94; Potocki on, 94; shamanistic beliefs and practices diffused from Asia to Europe, 225–26; Voltaire on, 120

“searchlight device,” 97, 101

Seguí Vidal, Gabriel, 27, 28

Seneca, 38

serial history, 200, 202, 203

Serlio, Sebastiano: Fontainebleau buildings, 42; Libro di architettura, 41; Libro estraordinario, 41–42, 43, 44fig

Serra, Renato, 177–78; “Partenza di un gruppo di soldati per la Libia,” 177, 209–10

Severus of Minorca, Bishop, letter, 5, 26–28, 29, 32

Sextus Empiricus, 15, 16, 76, 77; Adversus mathematicos, 13–14, 76–77; grammarians, 76–77, 80; Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 14, 76

Shakespeare, William, 149; Macbeth, 131

shamans, 83, 90–95, 215, 224–25

Shaw, M.R. B., 144

shields of Achilles, Iliad, 11

Siberia, shamans, 91–92, 94

Sigonio, Carlo, 16

Silius Italicus, 77

Simmel, Georg, 208

Simon, Marcel, 30–31

Simonde de Sismondi, J. C. L., 117

Simonides, 11

Situationists, 163

skepticism, 7, 13, 14, 176–78; ancient, 76; antipositivist, 3–4; euphoric, 211; Greek, 13; positivist, 3; postmodern, 2–3, 212; unsustainable position, 5; White and, 176, 211

Sklovskij, Viktor, 83–84, 99, 101

slave trade, Voltaire and, 103, 108–9

Smith, Morton, 220

smoking, 84–90, 92–93

social customs, Voltaire on, 99

Socialists, Serra essay vs., 177

social movements (‘60s), 127

Società journal, 220

sociology, 65, 180

Sofri, Adriano, 96, 113, 226

Solinus, Polyhistor, 88, 89, 90, 93

Spanish travelers, 38

Speroni, Sperone, 21; Dialogo della Istoria, 17, 18, 19–20; Dialogo delle lingue, 18–19; Dialogo secondo Virgilio, 17

Spinoza, Baruch, Tractatus theologico-politicus, 97–98

Spirit, reality created by, 173, 174–75

Spitzer, Leo, 220

Spon, Jacob, 118

Starobinski, Jean, 146

Stendhal, 137–50, 205; L’Antologia review, 140–41; Armance, 146; Auerbach on, 4, 96, 138, 140, 141–42, 143, 144–45; The Charter house of Parma, 147; on description, 148; energy, 136; eroticism, 146; “free direct discourse,” 143–44, 146–47, 150; logic, 147–48; Lucien Leuwen, 147; on Marino Faliero, 129–30; Marseilles, 142; Mina de Vanghe1, 148; Paris, 142; pseudonyms, 146; punctuation, 144; The Red and the Black, 4, 128–29, 132, 139–48; sister Pauline, 149; Souvenirs d’egotisme, 149–50; Trieste, 142; Vie d’Henry Brulard, 148; voyeurism, 146

Stephen, St., 30, 32. See also St. Stephen relics

Sterne, Laurence, 61

Stewart, George R., 193–94, 198–99; American Place-Names, 194; Man, an Autobiography, 193–94; Names on the Land, 194; Not So Rich as You Think, 193; Pickett’s Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Charge at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, 194, 208; The Year of the Oath, 194

Stieglitz, Alfred, 186

Strabo, 8

Strasburger, Hermann, 10, 11–12

structure, history or, 226

subjectivism: Gentile, 175; White, 172, 174

subjectivity, of historical narration, 1, 3

survivor, witness (unus testis), 5, 165, 168, 179

Swift, Jonathan, 100–101, 102; Gulliver’s Travels, 100–101; The Lady’s Dressing Room, 148; A Tale of a Tub, 100–101; “A Voyage into England, by a Person of Quality in Terra Australis incognita, Translated from the Original,” 100

Tacitus, 137–38

Taillandier, Saint-René, Ka; “Le realisme epique dans le roman,” 187–90; “Le roman mysanthropique,” 187; Scot Erigene et la philosophie scholastique, 187

Talbot, Catherine, 123

Taoism, 195

Tartars, 94

Tasso, Torquato, 117; Aminta, 35–36; Gerusalemme Liberata, 45, 46; Sant’Anna hospital in Ferrara, 36

technology, microhistory and, 214

templum-tempus, 213–14

terrorism, 163–64

Theocritus, 119

Theodore, defensor civitatis of Minorca, 25, 27

Thevet, André, 47; Codex Mendoza, 49; Les singularitez de la France antarctique, 47; Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres, 46–47, 48fig, 49

Thomas, Keith, 218

Thracians, smoke intoxication, 88, 89, 90, 93

Thrax, Dionysius, 14

thread of narration, 1

Thucydides, 12, 14–16, 74, 79; battle of Mantinea, 11

Times Literary Supplement, 127

tobacco, 84–90, 92–93

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 154, 163

tolerance: Voltaire and, 106, 111, 112–13; White and, 174, 176

Tolomei, Claudio, 40–41

Tolstoy, Leo, 211; War and Peace, 177, 204–5, 207, 208–9

Tom Jones (Fielding), 61–62

Torelli, Lelio, 13

Toulouse, Parlement, 56, 80

Toynbee, Arnold, 207

traces, 1, 3–4; first formulation, 4; opaque zones, 4

tradition, identified with artificiality, 35

tragedy: and comedy, 58–59; Marino Faliero, 130–31; The Return of Martin Guerre, 58–60

Traité des fiefs et de leur origine, 75

Trapolino (Trapolin), Pietro, 17–18

Tret’ jakov, Sergej, 101

Trevisan, Nicolò, 135

trial records, 55–56, 203. See also inquisitorial trials

truth, 7, 18–19; “antiuniversalism” and, 128; enargeia, 8–9, 11; fiction and, 18, 21, 139–40; Holocaust, 176; and possibility, 69–70; Stendhal on, 139; true history, 76–79, 213. See also authenticity; reality

Tupinamba religion, 47

Turin: Einaudi publishing house, 193, 197, 208; University of, 217

Turkey: Auerbach, 104. See also Istanbul

Turks, Voltaire and, 112–13

Tuscan order, “rustic style” and, 41

“two-tier model,” 33

Ulysses, myths about death of, 77

United States: Civil War, 194; democracy, 158; gloominess, 143; White, 169; witchcraft, 223; World Trade Center attack (11 September 2001), 113, 164

University of California, loyalty oath, 194

University of Pisa, 1, 13, 216

University of Rome, “La Sapienza,” 20

University of Turin, 217

unus testis (only surviving witness), 5, 165, 168, 179

utopianism, Kracauer and, 192

Uzalis: Evodius, bishop of, 29–30; St. Stephen relics, 28, 29–30

Val di Mosso, 212

van Esbroeck, Michael, 30

Vanini, Giulio Cesare, De admirandis Naturae arcanis, 80

Varro, Imagines or Hebdomades, 49

Vasari, Giorgio, 40

Vatican: Library, 49–51; loggias, 43; Raphael’s Stanze, 117; St. Peter dome, 117

Venice, State Archives, 134, 221, 222

Venturi, Franco, 212; Il populismo russo, 217

Veronese, Paolo, 18, 19fig

Vettori, Pier, 13

Vico, Giambattista, 105, 172; alleged founding father of Italian philosophical neoidealism, 172; Scienza Nuova, 97; verum ipsum factum, 173

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 175, 176–77; “Flavius Josephus and Masada,” 167; “A Paper Eichmann,” 167, 169

Villa Barbaro, Maser, 18, 19fig

Villalta, Gian Mario, 214

Villeneuve-Lebrun castle, near Puy-de-Dôme, 36

Virgil: Aeneid, 17, 49; Vatican Library, 49, 51fig; Vergilius Romanus, 51, 51fig

Vitruvius, De architectura, 38, 39fig, 41, 42

Vitry-Le-François, Jews, 166, 167, 168

Vives, José, 27

Voltaire: Catherine of Russia praised by, 121; Défense du mondain ou l’apologie du luxe, 103, 108; Dialogue du chapon et de la poularde, 109, 110, 111; Essai sur les moeurs, 102–3, 108, 116, 123; Galimatias dramatique, 110; histoire philosophique, 13; Il faut prendre un parti ou le principe d’action, 111–13; “I will fight in order to defend my opponent’s freedom to speak,” 176; Lettres philosophiques, 4, 96–114; London exile (1726–1728), 99; Le Marseillois et le lion, 110; Micromégas, 102; Le mondain, 103–4, 108; Notebooks, 99–100; Philosophie de l’histoire, 102, 103; Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne, 106–7, 108, 109; Les Scythes, 120; and Swift, 100–101, 102; Traité de métaphysique, 101–2, 107–8; Treatise on Tolerance, 106; “Wise men mislead me, and God alone is correct,” 107

Vossius, Isaac, 90, 93

Vovelle, Michel, 200, 203

Walpole, Horace, 123

Warburg, Aby, 207

Warburg Vorträge, 186

War of the Roses, 121

Wars of Religion, 146, 152

Weber, Max, 191

White, Hayden, 65–66, 169–76, 211; The Burden of History, 174; The Content of the Form, 172–73; Metahistory, 169–70; “The Politics of Historical Interpretation,” 175; Tropics of Discourse, 172, 173; “tropological” approach, 172

William of Nangis, continuator of, 166, 167, 168

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 116

witchcraft, 215–27; class struggle, 219, 220; difficulty of researching, 218–19; inquisitorial trials, 2, 202–3, 220–25; witches’ Sabbath, 92, 164, 222–27

witness, survivor (unus testis), 5, 165, 168, 179

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 136; Philosophische Untersuchungen, 136

women: first European woman to produce a historical work, 123; Voltaire and, 113

Woolf, Virginia, 204; To the Light house, 139

World Trade Center attack (11 September 2001), 113, 164

World War II, 189, 217. See also Holocaust; Nazism/National Socialists

Wray, Daniel, 123

Wunderkammer, 46

Xerxes, 124

yin history, 195

Yorke, Charles, 122

Yorke, Philip, 122

Zabarella, Girolamo, 17, 19

Zanzotto, Andrea, 213; “Alcune prospettive sulla poesia oggi,” 214; L’approdo Letterario 35, 214; La beltà, 213; Retorica su: lo sbandamento, il principio “resistenza”, 213

Zasie, 198

Zerbi, Pietro, 69