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Historical References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)