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Acknowledgments
Many people have been generous with assistance, and if anything’s wrong it’s their fault. Haven’t you always wanted to read that in an author’s acknowledgments? Tolerating my nights and weekends devoted to this project, Carol Christensen made helpful suggestions and embodied beauty, wisdom, and compassion. Ellen Christensen offered sensible, thoughtful, and creative insights. Claire Christensen shared her knowledge of Turkey. Peter Laufer was encouraging early on, and a supporter throughout. Jane Vandenburgh read early drafts of opening sections, and her enthusiasm was motivating.
Thanks are due to colleagues at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Former director Emily Sano read the book in manuscript, and I was heartened by her positive response. Chief curator Forrest McGill made helpful comments on the Persian painter Riza-yi Abbasi in particular. Susie Cantor shared resources on Low Country painting. Qamar Adamjee was of special assistance, and the entire curatorial staff — Michael Knight for China, Melissa Rinne for Japan, Kumja Kim for Korea, Natasha Reichle for Southeast Asia, along with too many others to list here — informed my understanding of Asian art and culture. (Similarly, my understanding of Latin American culture derives in part from my work with Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, and many others.)
Jack Shoemaker at Counterpoint Press, who believed in this book early on, was a pleasure to work with — I am fortunate to have so congenial an editor. Laura Mazer provided steady guidance. Barrett Briske, who is able to distinguish an italic from a roman period in 7.65-point type, caught a number of errors in copy editing. James Donnelly’s attentive and perceptive responses to the text exceeded what anyone could reasonably expect of a proofreader.
Eunice Howe of USC was generous and helpful on the Quirinale frescoes (for more on this see p. 366). Gary Snyder kindly read the manuscript during a busy period of travel and shared his response, for which I am deeply grateful. It was wonderful to receive a hand-written note from Evan Connell expressing positive sentiments: years ago I worked as an editor on his Son of the Morning Star and other books. Ren Weschler’s artfully crafted blurb arrived around the time I was reading his brilliant Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, compounding my pleasure. I am also profoundly grateful to John E. Wills, Jr., for consenting to read and comment on the book even though we had no previous acquaintance.
Thanks to Rod Clark, a friend since high school, for publishing an excerpt in the fiftieth issue of Rosebud magazine. Thanks also to the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, for providing high-resolution images of works in their collections; to Art Resource, NY, for permission to reproduce works from the Metropolitan Museum, New York (pp. 55 and 71), and the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany (p. 257); to Dennis Maloney of White Pine Press for permission to reproduce “At the Refugee Camp” by Heo Gyun (pp. 296–297); to New Directions for permission to quote from ‘’The Signature of All Things’’ by Kenneth Rexroth, from The Collected Shorter Poems, copyright ©1949 by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. (p. 227); to the Eisei-Bunko Museum for permission to reproduce the Western-style bell of the Hosokawas (p. 66); to Juliette Crane of Sue Bond Public Relations and the Khalili Trust for permission to reproduce the planispheric astrolabe, SC153 (p. 207), from The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art; to the Museo Galileo for permission to reproduce Galileo’s calculating device (p. 199); and to the Phoenix Art Museum and the kind assistance of Claudia Brown, Leesha M. Alston, and Momoko Welch for permission to reproduce the throne cover in the museum’s collection (p. 53).
Index
Page references in italics denote captions to illustrations.
Shah Abbas I, Safavid emperor of Persia, 16, 23, 27, 28, 253, 292, 309, 346; economic emphasis of, 291
Acapulco, 11; Castilo San Diego de Acapulco, 33, 34, 42, 47; origin of name, 34; squalid character of, 33–34, 38; trade fair, 38
Acosta, José de, Natural and Moral History of the Indies, 72
Acquaviva, Claudio, 328
Adams, Jerome R., 364
Adams, Joseph Quincy, 363
Adams, Will, 326–329, 367
Adorno, Rolena, 363
Ahmad, Mansur ibn Muhammed, 218
Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan, 18, 90, 163
Akbar, Mughal emperor, 109, 165, 262, 280
Åkerma, Susanna, 365
Akrigg, G. P. V. Jacobean Pageant: Or, The Court of King James I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
Albert, archduke of Austria, 154
alcohol consumption, 18–19, 108, 192–193
Aleppo, Syria, 259, 267, 286, 293, 315
Algiers, 272–277, 367
Ali Beg, Naqd, 320–321
Allen, Paula Gunn, 363
Alvaro II, king of Kongo, 253
Ambar, Malik, 20, 254, 279, 279–281, 366
America, viewed as woman, 84–85
Amsterdam, 11
Andersen, Peter, 194
Andrade, Tonio, 363
Andrea, Bernadette, 363
Andreae, Johann Valentin, 213
Andress, Ursula, 34
Angelocrator, Daniel, 11
Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, 13, 14, 362
Appold, Johann-Leonhard, 193
Aqa Riza, Mughal painter, 168
Aqa Riza, Persian painter. See Riza-yi Abbasi
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe, 192
Armenians, 291–292; weddings of, 341
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolome, 363
Asghar, Ali, 178
astrolabes, 206–209
astrology, 187
Atahualpa, 72
Austen, Jane, 93
Avercamp, Hendrick, 141, 364; Colf Players on the Ice, 146; Winter Scene on a Frozen Canal, 142
Ayutthaya (Thailand), 30, 324–326, 367
Babylon, 290
Bacon, Francis, 47, 70, 213; technology lauded by, 47
Baghdad, Iraq, 253, 257, 292, 346
Bahamas, 20
Bailey, Michael D., 365
Bakewell, Peter J., 363
Balchand, Inayat Khan Dying, 176
Banda Islands, 25, 64
; bandeirantes (Brazil), 27
Barbour, Philip, 363
Barong, 238
Basra, Iraq, 259, 352
Batavia (Jakarta), 41
Battle of Lepanto. See Lepanto, Battle of
Bedouins, 259, 293
Beg, Janghiz, 316
Behringer, Wolfgang, 365
Beijing, China, imperial silk workshops, 50; paper shortage, 298; population, 59
Belkin, Kristin Lohse, 364
Bellarmine, Robert, 202
Belli, Domenico, L’Orfeo Dolente, 90
Bell Savage Inn, London, 83–84, 363
Beltrán, G. A., 367
Bermuda, 282, 284, 367
Bernhard, Virginia, 367
Bernier, François, 223
Berry, Herbert, 363
Bichitr, 174–176; Asaf Khan, 174; Jahangir Preferrring a Shaykh to Kings, 174
Bindman, David, 366
Bishandas, 174; Shah Abbas, 292; The Mughal Embassy to the Safavid Court, 306
Bissell, R. Ward, 364
Bloody Night (Mexico City), 38
Bloom, Harold, 364
Blunt, Wilfred, 366
blurbs, 345
Bocarro, Antonio, 62; Book of East India Fortresses, 57
Bocarro, Gaspar, 62–63
Boehme, Jacob, 150, 223–227, 224, 365; Jacob Boehme at His Workbench, 224
Bol, Hans, 141
Bonner, Thomas, 317
book formats, 93, 98, 178
Book of Songs (Shi Jing), 48–49, 363
Boot, Adrian, 33, 34, 38–40, 42, 80–81, 362; Acapulco Bay, 33; Fortification at Veracruz, 81
Borges, Jorge Luis, 133
Borneo, 328
Borri, Christoforo, 336–339, 367; An Account of Cochin-China, 341
Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, 366
Bourgeois, Louise, 100–104, 244; Apology of Louise Bourgeois, 102; death and legacy, 104; Louise Bourgeois at Age Forty-Five, 103; Observations diverses, 103
Bousier, Martin, 100
Bowser, F. P., 367
Boxer, C. R., 329
Brahe, Tycho, 189, 190, 197, 337, 365; death of, 193–194; Portrait by Johann-Leonhard Appold after Jacob de Gheyn, 193; Uraniborg astronomical observatory, 191
Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Bird’s-Eye View of Algiers, 275
Breazeale, Kennon, 367
Brook, Timothy, 140, 361, 363, 364, 367
Brotto, Jerry, 361
Brown, Silvia, 364
Bruce, David, 268
Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder, 141
Bruhn, Siglind, 366
Buckingham, Duke of. See Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham
Buddhism, Chan, 135, 136; transmitted via Silk Road, 49
Bull, George, 366
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, 147
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, the Younger, 126
bureaucratization, 17, 259
Bureau of Prostitution, Japan, 110
Burma, 325
Burns, James Robert, 265, 271
Byeon Bak, Hideyoshi’s Navy Attacking Busanjin Fortress, 295
Cahill, James, 138, 140, 349, 364
Cairo, Egypt, 257, 259, 267–268
calendar, 9–10, 258–259
California, 331
calligraphy, East Asian, 299
Calonarang dance drama, Bali, 237
Cambodia, 324
camels, Camel Fight, 173; expense of, for caravans, 260; Loading Bales onto a Camel, 287
Campion, Thomas, 345
Canby, Sheila R., 180, 181, 364, 367
Cape Horn, 23
capitalism, 70, 246, 258
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 122, 124; Judith Slaying Holofernes, 124
caravans, 259–266
caravanserai, 287–289, 321
Caribs, 282
Carleton, Dudley, 154, 156
Carpaccio Vittore, Ladies of Venice, 114
Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset, 14, 96, 155, 264, 310
Cary, Elizabeth, 95
Caspar, Max, 365
Caspian Sea, 258
Castillo San Diego de Acapulco. See under Acapulco
Cecil, Robert, 309
Central Asia, 258
Cervantes, Miguel de, 9, 19, 114, 272, 367; date of death, 9; Don Quixote, 9, 272; slavery in Algiers, 272; “The Captive’s Tale,” 272
Cesare, Giulio, 190
Charles I of England, 127, 157, 355
Charles V of Spain, 18
Chen Jiru, 140–141, 185, 347, 348, 364
Chew, Samuel C., 366, 367
childbirth, death in, 113
Chimalpahin (San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quanhtlehuanitzin), 332–333, 367; Annals of His Time, 332
China Road (Mexico), 33–34
Chongzhen Emperor of China, 355
Christensen, Ellen, 127–128
Christiansen, Keith, 364
Christians and Christianity, Augustinians, 255; Calvinism, 99; Carmelites, 294; Carmelite mission to Persia, 315; Cistercians, 339; Franciscans, 263, 330–331, 332, 334, 335; Jesuits, 27, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 79, 99, 200, 203, 206, 247; Nestorians, 253; persecution of by Japanese, 66, 162, 325; Christian Martyrs of Nagasaki, 330
Christian IV of Denmark, 13, 18, 192, 194
Circassians, 315
Clavius, Christopher, 200
climate change. See Little Ice Age
Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 25
coffee, 256, 257, 267
Cohen, Leonard, 238–239
Cohen, Mark R., 366
colf, 141
Columbus, Christopher, 84, 200
Commedia dell’Arte, 31, 131
Conner, James A., 365
Connolly, Priscilla, 362
Cooper, George Perrigo, 365
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertsz, 149
Copernicanism, 202, 204, 337
Copernicus, 204; On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, 204
Coria del Rio, Spain, 335
Corr, William, 367
corsairs, 19–20, 274–279, 367
Cortés, Hernán, 38
cortigiane oneste (“reputable courtesans”), 113
Coryate, Thomas, 28, 114, 318, 343–346; Coryat’s Crudities; Hastily Gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, 30, 114, 342, 343, 344–345; Greeting from the Court of the Great Mogul, 30, 346
Council of Trent, 203
Counter Reformation, 203, 237
Court, John M., 366
Cousins, A. D., 362
Craik, Katharine, 367
Crashaw, William, 85
Cremonini, Cesare, 200
Crete, 266
Critz, John de, 90, 174
Crooke, Helkiah, 96
Cropper, Elizabeth, 364
Cruikshank, Bruce, 362
Cultural Revolution, 185
currency, paper, 22. See also dollar, Spanish
Curtin, Philip, 366
Daborne, Robert, 278; A Christian Turn’d Turk, 278
da Gama, Vasco, 44, 208
daimyo, 110
Dakhni, Raju, 280
Dale, Stephen, 361, 362, 367
Dale, Thomas, 83
Dalton, Karen C. C., 366
Damascus, 259, 263
Danziker, Siemen, 277, 314, 367
Date Masamune, 329–330, 335, 367
Davis, Natalie Zemon, 103, 364
Davis, Robert C., 367
Dawlat, Inayat Khan, 176
Day of Arafa, 259, 260
Deccan region, India, 20
Dee, John, 294
Defenestration of Prague, 243, 249
Dekker, Thomas, The Patient Man and the Honest Whore, 117; The Roaring Girl, 116, 364
Dellavida, G. L., 367
della Valle, Maani Gioerida, 253, 254, 290–291, 341–342, 353; The Death of Maani Gioerida, 341
della Valle, Pietro, 28, 221, 222, 255, 260, 365, 366; and George Strachan, 292–294; compared to William Lithgow, 265; meets, supports Cristofero Borri, 339; meets Catalina de Erauso, 121, 352; Pietro della Vall
e Discovers Egyptian Mummies, 256; Pietro della Valle Prepares for a Caravan Journey, 284; The Travels of Pietro Della Valle, 257
delle Colombe, Ludovico, 200
des Roches, Catherine, 118
Devereux, Robert, Second Earl of Essex, 310, 367
Devereux, Robert, Third Earl of Essex, 96–97, 310
de Bry, Theodor, Indian Miners at Potosí, 72
de Gheyn III, Jacob, 361
de Lenclos, Ninon, “queen of courtesans”, 113
de Medici, Ferdinand, 205
de Medici, Piero, 147
de Nobili, Roberto, 338
de Pina, Antonio, 338
de Resende, Barreto, Plan of Macau, 57
Ding Yunpeng, Morning Sun over the Heavenly Citadel, 348
Directions for Endowment and Vitality, 218
Disney Studios, 131, 363
dollar, Spanish, 20, 70
Dong Qichang, 133–139, 182, 184, 185, 364; Clearing after Snow on Mountain Passes, 139, 140; Landscape, 1617, 136; Portrait by Zeng Jing, 135; Qingbian Mountain, 136
Donne, John, 17, 85, 96, 363; “Loves Alchymie,” 217–218; “To His Mistress Going to Bed,” 85
Doré, Gustave, Captives in Algiers, 272; Don Quixote Driven Mad by Reading, 9
dragon chasing pearls, Chinese decorative motif, 50
Drake, Francis, 41, 317, 327
Drake, Stillman, 365
Dror, Olga, 338, 339, 367
Dumonstier, Pierre, The Right Hand of Artemisia Gentileschi Holding a Brush, 127
Dunhuang, China, 49
Durer, Albrecht, 168
Durga, 238
Dutch East India Company (VOC), 23, 30, 41, 44, 47, 66, 70, 80, 362; logo, 41
dysentery, 131
Eaton, Richard, 366
Ekathrosrot, king of Ayutthaya, 324
Eliot, T. S., 116
Elizabeth I of England, 13, 16, 44, 93, 98, 99, 104, 309
Elman, Benjamin A., 365
El Dorado, 19
Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, 216
Encyclopedia of Islam, 366, 367
English East India Company, 24, 317
Erauso, Catalina de, 83, 118, 118–123, 352, 364; gender issues surrounding, 119
Essex, Earl of. See Devereux, Robert, Third Earl of Essex
eunuchs, in the Chinese imperial court, 279
Fagan, Brian, 364
Faivre, Antoine, 365
Fakhry, Majid, 365
Faroqhi, Suraiya, 366
Father Christmas, 355
Fayyad, Amir, 293
Félix, Maria, 83
Ferguson, Kitty, 365, 366
Fettmilch riots, 246; Plundering of the Judengasse, 247, 366
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