ASHER’S RECOLLECTIONS OF THE INQUISITION ARE ADAPTED FROM eyewitness accounts recorded in Edward Burman’s The Inquisition. The two stanzas of poetry about the Wandering Jew are from John Ker Roxburghe’s Roxburghe Ballads and quoted in The Legend of the Wandering Jew by George K. Anderson.
I owe a special thanks to novelists and friends Nancy Moser, Robert Elmer, Melody Carlson, and Molly Bull, who shared vivid memories of Rome. (Thanks, folks! I’ll make it to Italy yet!) Also, special thanks to Grant Jeffrey, who shared many things about the Wandering Jew, and to Susan Richardson, who waded through a very rough draft and provided helpful feedback. Grazie molto, amici!
I am also indebted to the following authors and their informative books:
Anderson, George K. The Legend of the Wandering Jew. Hanover, N.H.: Brown University Press, 1991.
Blumberg, Arnold, ed. Great Leaders, Great Tyrants. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Burman, Edward. The Inquisition. New York: Dorset Press, 1984.
Chirot, Daniel. Modern Tyrants. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Dimitrius, Jo-Ellan and Mark Mazzarella. Reading People. New York: Random House, 1998.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Hindson, Ed. Is the Antichrist Alive and Well? Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, 1998.
Hofmann, Paul. The Seasons of Rome. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
Jeffrey, Grant. Final Warning. Toronto: Frontier Research Publications, 1995.
Lewis, David. The Secret Language of Success. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1989.
Neighbor, Travis, and Monica Larner. Living, Studying, and Working in Italy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
Pentecost, J. Dwight. Things to Come. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1964.
Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York: Harper Perennial, 1985.
Stableford, Brian, ed. Tales of the Wandering Jew. Sawtry, U.K.: Daedalus Ltd., 1991.
Wild, Fiona, ed. Rome. New York: DK Publishing, 1997.