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When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Literature, Philosophy, and Mythology

  • Robert Browning (4.5)
  • George Eliot (4.5)
  • William Shakespeare, The Tempest (characters Ariel and Caliban) (13.14
  • Charles Dickens (13.24)
  • Samuel Johnson (13.24)
  • Oliver Goldsmith (13.24)
  • Joseph Addison (13.24)
  • Juno (18.9)
  • Niobe (18.9)
  • Molière, L’Avare ("en écus bien comptés?") (22.47)
  • Aristides the Just (23.13)
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (24.8)
  • Vittoria Colonna (24.8)
  • Metastasio (24.8)
  • Madame de Staël, Corinne (26.9, 35.10)
  • George John Whyte-Melville (26.9)
  • George, Lord Byron, Childe Harold ("Niobe of Nations") (26.14)
  • Andre Marie Ampère, Essai sur la philosophie des sciences (29.3)
  • Alexander Pope, “An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” ("Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike") (34.3)
  • Sir Walter Scott (37.9)
  • Scylla and Charybdis (39.7)
  • Prosperine (39.7)
  • The Bible (49.13)

Historical References

  • Edward VI (1.2)
  • Elizabeth I (1.2)
  • Oliver Cromwell (1.2)
  • American Civil War (4.5, 13.10)
  • Lady Jane Grey (15.6)
  • Lord Nelson/Nelson’s column (15.6)
  • French Revolution (19.12)
  • Third French Republic, est. 1870 (19.20)
  • Louis Philippe (20.14)
  • Almanach de Gotha (encyclopedia of European royalty) (20.16)
  • Louis XV (20.17)
  • First Empire (20.17)
  • Queen Anne (20.17)
  • Medici clan (24.7)
  • Savonarola (24.7)
  • Louis XIV (36.6)

Art and Cultural References

  • London Spectator (4.5)
  • Charles Gounod (4.5)
  • Columbia (allegorical figure) (7.3)
  • Titian (7.6)
  • J.M.W. Turner (15.6)
  • Franz Schubert (18.1)
  • Pietro Perugino (23.2)
  • Uffizi Gallery , Florence (24.5)
  • Pitti Gallery, Florence (24.5)
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio (24.7)
  • Pietro Longhi (25.7)
  • Francisco Goya (25.7)
  • Murray, Guide to Rome (27.1, 36.19)
  • Michelangelo, St. Peter’s Basilica (27.15)
  • Statue of the Dying Gladiator (28.7)
  • Caravaggio (36.19)
  • Capo di Monte porcelain (37.4)
  • Diego Velásquez (37.9)
  • Andonio da Correggio (44.19)
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