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by Stephen Greenblatt


  animal sacrifices, 183, 298n

  annotations, 23, 88, 221, 248–49, 256, 306n

  Anthony, Saint, 68, 286n

  antipopes, 160, 205, 293n–94n

  see also John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa), Antipope

  antiquarianism, 123, 129, 208–9, 290n

  Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome, 273n

  Antony, Mark, 61, 281n

  apikoros (Epicurean), 101

  Apis, 89

  Apollo, 75, 99

  Apologeticus (Tertullian), 284n

  “Apology for Raymond Sebond” (Montaigne), 246

  apostles, 24, 217–18

  apostolic secretary (secretarius domesticus), 141–42, 154, 155–58, 161, 170, 180, 181, 205–15, 221, 224, 269n

  Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 252–53

  Arabs, 282n–83n

  Aragazzi, Bartolomeo de, 34–35, 44

  Aramaic language, 97

  archaeology, 54–59, 63–64

  Archimedes, 87

  architecture, 9, 110–11, 129, 151, 156

  Aretino, Leonardo, 179

  Arezzo, 34, 141

  Ariosto, Ludovico, 9, 242

  aristocracy, 14–20, 36, 44, 59–61, 93

  Aristotelianism, 96, 252–53

  Aristotle, 62, 69, 73, 83, 91, 96, 98, 252–53, 284n, 304n

  art, 9, 17, 39, 40, 59, 60, 70, 88, 104, 129

  asceticism, 6, 37, 41, 94–97, 104–9, 195, 228, 244, 285n–86n

  Ass, The (Lucian), 217

  Assayer, The (Galileo), 254–55

  astronomy, 5–6, 8, 48, 87, 91, 92, 239

  atheism, 183–84, 221, 239, 259, 261

  Athens, 59, 75, 77, 78–79, 274n, 276n, 280n

  atomism, 5–6, 8, 46, 73–75, 82, 99, 101, 185–89, 198–201, 220–21, 237, 239, 242–43, 244, 249, 250–53, 254, 255–56, 258, 260, 261, 297n, 306n

  atonement, 105–6

  Atticus, 85, 119

  Attila, 11

  Augustine, Saint, 43

  Augustinians, 111

  Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 48, 61, 275n

  Austria, 55, 163

  Averroës, 117

  Avignon, 293n

  Bacchus, 183

  Bacon, Francis, 8, 243, 261

  Baden, 173–76, 177

  Baghdad, 38

  Balbus, Quintus Lucilius, 69–70

  banking, 21, 22, 113–14

  Baptistry (Florence), 110

  barbarians, 11, 24, 28, 49, 59, 94

  Barbaro, Francesco, 180–81, 203, 268n

  Barberini, Maffeo, 254

  Bari, 135

  Bassus, Saleius, 23–24

  Bay of Naples, 54–55

  Beaufort, Henry (bishop of Winchester), 206–8

  beauty, 1–2, 8–10, 11, 201–2, 228, 251, 260–61, 299n

  Benedict, Saint, 25–28, 97, 103

  Benedict XIII, Antipope, 160, 205

  Benedictine Rule, 25–28, 37, 272n

  Benedictines, 25–28, 37, 44, 107, 272n

  benefices, 147, 269n

  Bernardino, Saint, 128

  Bethlehem, 95

  Bibaculus, Marcus Furius, 23–24

  Bible, 3, 24, 43, 46, 88, 89, 95–96, 97, 105, 166, 239, 250, 285n

  bibliomancy, 18–19

  bibliomania, 19, 152–54, 131, 177

  Bischhoff, Bernhard, 271n–72n

  bishops, 20, 36, 38, 135, 161, 162, 168–69, 210

  Black Death, 113

  Bobbio monastery, 271n–72n

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, 120, 124, 132–33, 144

  Bohemia, 155, 166, 168

  Boiardo, Matteo, 242

  Bologna, 113, 143, 158, 159–60, 214, 226

  Bologna, University of, 158

  “Bonfire of the Vanities,” 219

  Boniface, Saint, 44, 45–46

  Boniface IX, Pope, 135, 158

  book repairers, 84–85

  books of hours, 17

  bookworms, 30, 83–84, 93

  Borgia, Cesare, 226

  Botticelli, Sandro, 10, 202, 226, 242, 267n

  Bourbon dynasty, 55

  Bracciolini, Filippo, 213

  Bracciolini, Giovanni Battista, 213

  Bracciolini, Giovanni Francesco, 213

  Bracciolini, Guicco, 111–12, 113, 122, 141, 211

  Bracciolini, Jacoba, 112

  Bracciolini, Jacopo, 213

  Bracciolini, Lucretia, 213

  Bracciolini, Pietro Paolo, 213

  Bracciolini, Poggio, see Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco

  Bracciolini, Vaggia di Buondelmonti, 212–14, 301n

  Brancacci family, 126

  Branda de Castiglione, 162

  bribery, 139–40

  Brunelleschi, Filippo, 110, 218

  Bruni, Leonardo, 125–26, 133, 134, 159, 162, 172–73, 178, 205, 210, 216, 295n

  Bruno, Giordano, 10, 233–41, 242, 243, 250, 256

  Brutus, 61

  Bryaxis, 89

  bubonic plague, 18

  “Bugiale” (“Lie Factory”), 142, 210

  Buondelmonti, Gino dei, 301n

  Buondelmonti, Vaggia di Gino, see Bracciolini, Vaggia di Buondelmonte

  Buondelmonti family, 113, 212, 301n

  bureaucrats, 85, 135–38, 157

  burning at the stake, 172–73, 177–79, 240–41

  Burton, Robert, 8

  Byzantium, 126

  Caesar, Julius, 61, 65, 79, 85, 89, 274n, 281n

  Caesarini, Giuliano, 210

  Cairo, 38

  calculus, 87

  calfskin, 40

  Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 48

  calligraphy, 112–13, 115–16, 121, 130, 135, 155–56, 179

  Calvin, John, 253

  cameos, 129, 209

  Campbell, James, 285n

  Campo dei Fiori, 240–41

  candles, 41, 83, 158

  canon law, 136–37, 158

  Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 278n

  capitalism, 114

  Capponi family, 113

  Capra, Bartolomeo della, 162–63

  Caravaggio, 9

  carbonized remains, 54–59, 63–64, 68, 77, 82

  cardinals, 135, 161, 163, 165, 168, 169, 210, 293n

  Carmelites, 111

  Caro, Rodrigo, 250

  Carolingian minuscules, 115, 121

  Carthage, 59, 85, 275n

  cartography, 239

  Cassian, John, 26

  Cassiodorus, 123

  Castel St. Angelo, 20, 161

  catasto (official inventory), 22

  Catherine of Siena, Saint, 293n

  Catherine von Gebersweiler, 108

  Catholic Church:

  apologetics of, 23–24, 47–48, 53–54, 97–108, 101, 208, 285n

  bureaucracy of, 85, 135–38, 157

  corruption in, 136–41, 151–52, 165–66, 170–71, 181

  Epicureanism opposed to, 7, 97–109, 182–84, 219–41, 249–62, 284n, 285n, 302n

  fundamentalism in, 89–108, 219–21, 227, 236, 239–40, 254–56

  legal system of, 136–37, 158

  literature of, 42, 43, 46–47

  national factions in, 160, 163, 164, 176, 178, 205

  as official religion, 89–108

  paganism suppressed by, 10, 13, 19, 53–54, 75–78, 86–108, 117–18, 123, 129, 150, 222–24, 258, 283n, 284n, 286n

  papacy of, see specific popes

  schism in, 142–43, 155, 160, 161–78, 205

  spiritual authority of, 100–109, 136–37, 149–50, 164–65, 168–69, 227, 230, 232

  temporal authority of, 36, 135–37, 149–50, 157–58, 161–62, 239–40

  theology of, 16, 17, 27, 75–76, 94–108, 120, 136–37, 163, 208, 252–54, 282n–83n, 285n

  Catullus, 53

  celestial spheres, 5–6

  Ceres, 183

  Cervantes, 9, 142

  Cervini, Marcello, 227

  Cesena, 293n–94n

  chancery courts, 137

  change, 5–7, 10, 186–87, 243–45, 259–60, 263


  Charlemagne, 12, 47, 121

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 277n–78n

  children, 127, 137, 193, 194, 210, 212–13, 215

  Chloris, 267n

  Chronicles of Herculaneum, 65

  Chrysippus, 82

  Chrysolaras, Manuel, 126

  Church Fathers, 23–24, 47–48, 53–54, 99–100, 101, 208, 284n, 285n

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 23, 24, 43, 49, 53, 65, 69–70, 71, 72, 76, 85, 94–95, 96, 119, 120, 121–22, 123 138, 155–56, 176–77, 208, 273n, 274n, 283n, 289n, 296n, 300n

  Cicero, Quintus Tullius, 51

  Ciompi (working-class revolutionaries), 114–15

  city-states, 59, 122–24

  Clare of Assisi, Saint, 108

  Clement of Alexandria, 285n

  Clement VII, Pope, 293n, 294n

  Cleopatra, 281n

  clinamen (swerve) principle, 7–13, 188–89, 297n

  Cluny abbey, 176–77

  codices, 39–40, 42–43, 62, 82–83, 89, 176–77

  Colonna, Oddo, 205–6, 211, 269n

  Colonna family, 135

  Colosseum, 63, 129

  Columbanus, Saint, 27–28, 272n

  commentaries, 46, 221–41

  conclaves, papal, 205–6

  confession, 65, 143, 173, 255

  Constance, 15, 19–20, 31, 35–36, 102, 162–78, 180, 206, 294n

  Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, 89, 102, 149–50, 224

  Constantinople, 113, 169, 216

  convents, 106, 108

  Copernicus, Nicolaus, 10, 238, 254

  Coptics, 24–25

  copyists (librari), 85–86

  copyright, 85

  corporale supplicium (bodily punishments), 106

  corporal punishment, 104–6

  Correr, Angelo, 160, 180, 205

  Cossa, Baldassare, see John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa), Antipope

  Cotta, Gaius Aurelius, 69–70

  Council of Constance (1414–18), 15, 19–20, 31, 35–36, 102, 162–78, 180, 206, 294n

  Council of Trent (1545–63), 252, 253, 255

  Counter-Reformation, 237–38, 253

  courtiers, 8, 14, 15

  Creech, Thomas, 257, 267n

  crime, 38, 104, 140, 228

  crucifixions, 104, 112, 194, 241

  cruelty, 194, 195, 198, 246, 298n

  cult objects, 90–91, 92

  cults, 89–90

  Cupid, 267n

  cyclical patterns, 10

  Cyril, Saint, 91, 92–93

  Damian, Peter, 107

  Danae, 175

  Dante Alighieri, 123, 132–33, 288n

  Darwin, Charles, 262

  Darwin, Erasmus, 262

  David, King, 43

  day laborers (populo minuto), 114–15

  Day of Judgment, 100

  De aquaeductu urbis (Frontius), 152

  death, fear of, 2–5, 9, 75–76, 112, 152, 180, 192–94, 196, 199, 220, 248

  death sentences, 104, 158, 164, 172–73, 177–79, 213, 219, 228, 240–41, 255, 286n, 296n, 297n

  debate, 27–28

  Decembrio, Pier Candido, 226

  Declaration of Independence, 263

  declinatio (swerve) principle, 7–13, 188–89, 297n

  della Robbia, Luca, 218

  delusion, 195–97

  Democritus, 74–75, 82

  demons, 8, 10, 26, 89, 105, 194–95

  De rerum natura (Lucretius), 182–202, 219–41

  adaptation principle in, 189–90

  afterlife denied in, 171, 183, 192–94, 195, 196–97, 220, 223, 230–32, 244, 260

  Aldine edition of, 226

  atheism in, 183–84, 221, 239, 259, 261

  atomist theory in, 5–6, 8, 46, 73–75, 82, 99, 101, 185–89, 198–201, 220–21, 237, 239, 242–43, 244, 249, 250–53, 254, 255–56, 258, 260, 261, 297n, 306n

  author’s reading of, 1–13

  beauty in, 1–2, 8–10, 11, 201–2, 228, 251, 260–61, 299n

  books and sections of, 65

  Catholic doctrine opposed to, 7, 97–109, 182–84, 219–41, 249–62, 284n, 285n, 302n

  change and transition in, 5–7, 10, 186–87, 243–45, 259–60, 263

  Cicero’s revision of, 53

  classical references to, 49–52

  commentaries on, 221–41

  creation vs. destruction in, 186–89, 220, 249, 250–52, 261

  cultural influence of, 11–13, 49–52, 182–83, 185, 204–5, 209–10, 218, 219–63, 302n

  cyclical patterns in, 10

  dedication written for, 53

  delusion in, 195–97

  description of, 182–202

  desire in, 197–98

  detachment in, 195–97

  disappearance of, 12–13, 49–52, 88–89, 209–10, 272n

  divine will in, 71, 74, 75, 102–3, 105, 187, 194–95, 220, 230–36, 249, 251, 285n

  emendations of, 226

  English translations of, 184, 198, 201, 257–62, 267n, 297n–98n, 299n, 305n

  Epicurean philosophy of, 1–5, 58–59, 72–80, 88–89, 103, 104, 109, 182–202, 220–21, 222, 228–32, 244–46, 252–54, 256, 262–63, 303n

  eroticism in, 197–98, 201–2

  ethics and morality in, 195–96

  fear of death in, 2–5, 9, 192–94, 196, 199, 220, 248

  free will in, 71, 74–75, 189

  French translations of, 243–44, 247, 257, 262

  gods and goddesses in, 1–2, 10, 183, 184, 193–94, 195, 197, 198, 199, 201–2, 228, 231–32, 251, 260–61, 298n, 299n

  as grammatical source, 12

  happiness in, 195–97, 199

  Herculaneum fragments of, 54–59, 64–65, 70–72, 81

  hexameters of, 2, 182

  historical influence of, 11–13

  human existence in, 190–92

  hymn to Venus in, 1–2, 10, 201–2, 228, 251, 260–61, 299n

  illusion in, 198–99

  imagination in, 196–97

  infinity in, 186, 187, 189, 196–97, 237, 239, 244, 256

  “intelligent design” discredited by, 187–88, 220, 297n

  Italian translation of, 257, 262

  language of, 2–3

  Latin language of, 2–3, 12, 50, 182, 202, 225, 243, 247, 256

  Machiavelli’s copy of, 221

  manuscripts of, 11–13, 49–50, 88–89, 181, 182–85, 202, 203–5, 208–10, 218, 221–22, 225, 226, 231, 244, 256, 262, 272n, 300n

  materialism in, 9–10, 184–86, 190–91, 193, 198–201, 243, 244, 249, 259–63, 297n

  metaphors in, 201

  in Middle Ages, 52–53, 88–89, 209–10, 272n

  modern influence of, 6–7, 8, 13, 185, 242–63

  Montaigne’s copy of, 248–49, 256, 306n

  mythology in, 193–95

  natural world in, 6, 10–11, 188–90, 262, 298n

  Niccoli’s transcription of, 203–4

  “Oblongus” manuscript of, 204

  paradise in, 191–92, 193

  pleasure principle in, 8–10, 11, 75–80, 82, 102, 103–9, 195–98, 222–26, 228, 231

  as poetry, 2–3, 50, 54, 80, 198, 200, 201–2, 221, 247, 259–60

  Poggio’s copy of, 49–50, 203–5, 208–10, 225, 300n

  Poggio’s discovery of, 11–13, 22, 23–24, 49–50, 62, 65, 88–89, 93, 109, 181, 182–85, 202, 203–5, 218, 221–22, 225, 226, 231, 244, 256, 262

  printed editions of, 204, 219, 248–50, 256, 262

  Providence in, 187, 230–36, 251

  “Quadratus” manuscript of, 204

  readership of, 65–67, 70–72, 182, 209–10, 219–63

  readings of, 71–72, 226

  reason in, 199

  religious superstitions opposed by, 2, 6, 10–11, 18–19, 36, 72, 74–75, 183, 184, 193–97, 199, 249, 299n

  Renaissance influenced by, 7–13

  reputation of, 6–7, 8, 13, 51–52, 109, 185, 242–63

  resurrection denied by, 171, 231–32

  sexuality in, 103, 197–98, 201�
��2, 222, 247

  soul in, 192–93, 196–97, 220, 231–32, 249, 251

  space and time in, 186–89, 196–97, 237, 239, 244, 256

  style of, 2–3, 7, 51

  suffering in, 183, 195–98

  swerve (clinamen) principle in, 7–13, 188–89, 297n

  syntax of, 182

  title of, 46, 49, 181

  translations of, 1–3, 184, 198, 201, 243–44, 247, 257–62, 267n, 297n–98n, 299n–300n, 305n

  universe as conceived in, 7–8, 73–74, 87, 186, 187, 189, 194, 220, 237, 238–39, 250–52, 306n

  void in, 187, 198–99

  De rerum naturis (Maurus), 49

  De runalibus (Serenus), 272n

  Descartes, René, 68, 239

  desire, 197–98

  detachment, 195–97

  Deuteronomy, Book of, 285n

  dialogical disavowal, 222–23, 302n–3n

  Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo), 255

  dialogues, 69–72, 138–39, 147–49, 216–17, 222–26, 255, 302n–3n

  Diana, 99

  Diderot, Denis, 262

  Didymus of Alexandria, 81–82

  Diogenes Laertius, 82, 278n

  diplomacy, 122–26, 155, 214

  disciplina (whipping), 106

  disillusion, 198–99

  dispensations, 21, 136–37

  divine will, 71, 74, 75, 102–3, 105, 187, 194–95, 220, 230–36, 249, 251, 285n

  divinity, 98–99, 183

  documents, official, 56–57

  Dominic, Saint, 108

  Dominicans, 111, 168, 219, 240

  Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 48, 275n

  Donatello, 211, 218

  “Donation of Constantine,” 149–50, 224

  Donne, John, 143

  dowries, 301n

  drama, 77–78, 81, 94, 95, 104, 242–43

  Dryden, John, 198, 201, 262, 267n, 297n–98n, 299n

  Duccio, 10

  Dungal, 12

  Duomo (Florence), 110, 113, 180, 217–18

  Eastern Orthodox Church, 136

  edicts, religious, 89–90

  education, 24, 28, 59, 71, 91, 97, 104, 112–13, 121–22, 138–41, 151, 211, 214, 226

  Egypt, 24–25, 42, 56–57, 61, 66, 84–94, 279n–80n

  Einstein, Albert, 262

  elections, papal, 205–6, 293n

  Elijah, 90

  Elsbeth of Oye, 108

  emendations, textual, 226

  empiricism, 73, 262–63

  England, 163, 164, 205, 206–8, 227–40, 242–43, 257–62

  English language, 184, 198, 201, 206, 257–62, 267n, 297n–98n, 299n, 305n

  Enlightenment, 262

  Ennius, 273n

  Ephesus, 99

  epic poetry, 48–49, 182, 243, 273n

  Epicurean, The (Erasmus), 227

  Epicureanism, 1–5, 7, 58–59, 69–80, 82, 88–89, 97–109, 182–202, 219–41, 244–46, 249–63, 277n, 284n, 285n, 302n–3n

  Epicure Mammon, Sir, 77–78

  Epicurus, 2, 62, 72–80, 101–2, 109, 222, 274n, 277n–78n

 

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