Abel, Elizabeth 109,119

Adams, Robert M. 77n, 78, 81, 163

Addison, Joseph 152

Alciati, Andrea 52

Allen, Grant 99

Anna di Danimarca 34, 42

Anzi, Anna 26

Aretino, Pietro 51

Ashcroft, Peggy 157

Austen, Jane 135, 153, 155

Bachelard, Gaston 32, 37, 44, 45, 110, 111, 112, 114, 119

Bachtin, Michail 156

Bacon, Francis 35, 36

Baden-Powell, Robert 97

Baltrušaitis, Jurgis 37n

Barberini, Francesco 165

Barr Snitow, Ann 98

Barthes, Roland 144, 145, 146, 151

Baudelaire, Charles 113

Beer, Gillian 41, 116

Benveniste, Emile 156

Berman Marshall 143

Bernini, Lorenzo 114

Béroalde de Verville, François 56

Binney, Marcus 149

Boilly, Louis 171

Bonaparte, Napoleone 162

Booth, William 93n

Bosch, Hyeronimus 165

Boyle, Richard (Lord Burlington) 153

Braddock, Edward 96

Bronzino, Angiolo 54

Brown, Lancelot 34

Browne, William 110

Bruce, Thomas (Lord Elgin) 162, 169

Bruno, Giordano 51

Budgen, Frank 75

Buontalenti, Bernardo (Bernardo Timante Buonacorsi) 29, 31, 33

Byron, George Gordon 162

Cadioli, Alberto 25

Calvesi, Maurizio 58

Calvino, Giovanni 163

Camillo, Giulio (detto Delminio) 31, 33

Caponi, Paolo 124

Carr, Robert 34

Carrier, David 162

Castoldi, Alberto 54

Caterina II di Russia 168

Caus, Salomon de 27, 34-42

Cavecchi, Mariacristina 124

Ceserani, Remo 73

Chaloner, Thomas 34

Chamberlain, Jospeh 97

Childers, Erskine 97

Christie, James 167

Cianci, Giovanni 16, 72

Ciniselli, Giulia 17

Cixous, Hélène 82

Clair, Jean 171

Clifford, James 98, 153

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 112

Colonna, Francesco 56, 57, 59, 60

Colvin, Sidney 98n

Conrad, Joseph 94, 95, 98

Copernico, Nicola 50

Correggio (Antonio Allegri detto il) 164

Correr, Teodoro 34

Cosgrove, Stuart 149

Cowper, William 111, 112, 155

Cremisi, Teresa 15

Cuojati, Francesca 16, 124

Cusatelli, Giorgio 15

D’Agostino, Nemi 14

Dalai, Paola 15

Dallington, Robert 56

Davison, Claire 16

De Nardis, Luigi 14

Dee, John 33, 51

Defoe, Daniel 40, 154, 155

dei Servi, Costantino 26, 36

del Sarto, Andrea 165

Descartes, René (Cartesio) 36

Devereux, Robert (duca di Leicester) 30

Donne, John 150

Dryden, John 150

Dürer, Albrecht 155, 164, 165

Eco, Umberto 78

Eliot, Thomas Stearns 72, 113

Elisabetta I (Elisabetta Tudor) 30, 36, 51, 52

Ellmann, Richard 76, 79

Elton, Charles 114

Enrichetta Maria Francia 165

Enrico Stuart (principe di Galles) 26, 34, 36, 164

Enrico IV (Enrico di Borbone) 32

Enrico VIII (Enrico Tudor) 50, 169

Esposito, Edoardo 73

Evett, David 52, 60

Fasano, Pino 73

Federico IV del Palatinato 36

Ferrer, Daniel 109, 119

Fielding, Henry 123, 128, 130

Filippo IV d’Asburgo 164

Flaubert, Gustave 73, 113, 115

Fludd, Robert 33

Fogel, Jean-François 142

Ford, Ford Madox (anche Ford Madox Hueffer) 72, 73, 93-104

Foster, Norman 161

Foucault, Michel 49, 158

Francesco I di Francia 29, 50

Frazer, James 98-102

Freud, Sigmund 109, 119

Fry, Roger 73, 115, 116, 119

Frye, Northrop 55

Gainsborough, Thomas 169

Galsworthy, Ada 98n

Garzanti, Livio 15

Gedge, Morris 155, 156

Geertz, Clifford 103, 104, 105

Genette, Gérard 71, 75

Gentileschi, Artemisia 164

Gentileschi, Orazio 164

Giacomo I (Giacomo Stuart) 26, 34

Giordano, Luca 51, 166

Giorgio I (Giorgio Ludovico di Hannover) 166

Giorgio II (Giorgio Augusto di Hannover) 166

Giorgio III (Giorgio Guglielmo Federico di Hannover) 166

Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) 165

Girouard, Mark 149

Golding, William 40

Gosse, Edmund 98n

Greenwood, John 26

Grimm, Jakob e Wilhelm (fratelli Grimm) 111, 118

Gwinne, Matthew 34

Haddon, Alfred C. 99

Hamilton, Charles 154

Harding, Jason 72

Hardy, Thomas 123, 131-133, 151, 152

Haskell, Francis 165, 166

Hawkins, Desmond 151

Haydocke, Richard 51

Henry, Albert 72

Herzog & DeMeuron 161

Hewison, Robert 149

Hill, Octavia 157

Hilliard, Nicholas 51

Hillis Miller, Joseph 123, 128n, 130, 134n

Hobbes, Thomas 153

Holbein, Hans 164, 165, 169

Howard, Thomas (Lord Arundel) 164

Hudson, William Henry 98n

Ishiguro, Kazuo 123, 127-144

James, Henry 16, 73, 125, 134, 152, 155, 165, 168

Jarman, Derek 17

Jones, Inigo 26, 33, 26, 42

Jonson, Ben 56

Joyce, James 15, 71, 72, 75, 76-90, 113

Kain, Richard 78, 82

Kerver, Jacques 56

Keynes, John Maynard 134, 137, 138

Kiberd, Declan 15

Kipling, Rudyard 97, 152

Klein, Melanie 109

Kneller, Godfrey 166

Kruger, Paul 97

La Fontaine, Jean de 114

Lagorio, Gina 15

Lancret, Nicolas 171

Lang, Andrew 98, 99

Languet, Hubert 52

Laurent, Beatrice 16

Lawrence, Thomas 98

Le Carré, John 127

Le Fèvre de la Boderie, Guy 34

Le Guern, Michel 72, 88

Le Nôtre, André 114

Lees-Milne, James 149

Leibniz, Georg 159

Lely, Peter 166

Leonardo da Vinci 51

Lewis, Wyndham 98, 141

Linati, Carlo 75

Lodge, David 76, 89

Lomazzo, Giovan Paolo 25, 51

London, Jack 93

Longhi, Roberto 54

Lorrain (Claude Gellée) 166

Lotman, Juri 83

Loyola, Ignazio di 33

Lydiat, Thomas 34

Machiavelli, Niccolò 51

Malinowski, Bronisław Kasper 98-104

Mallarmé, Stéphane 13, 115, 116, 119

Mantegna, Andrea 164, 166

Maquerlot, Jean-Pierre 26

Maria de’ Medici (regina di Francia) 32

Martin, Jean 56

Marx, Eleanor 73

Marx, Karl 143

Marzola, Alessandra 73

Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney 93-99

Mauron, Charles 73, 119

Maxwell, James Clark 116

Mazarino, Giulio 166

Melchiori, Giorgio 15, 72

Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 50, 165

Mnouchkine, Ariane 14

Mo, Timothy 123

Montaigne, Michel de 26, 29, 30

Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Sécondat) 143

Moro, Tommaso 40

Morris, William 152, 153

Moser, Thomas C. 95

Mosley, Oswald 135, 138

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 80, 82

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban 166

Murray Scott, John 98n, 170

Myers, Jeffrey Rayner 26

Nora, Pierre 158

Norris, Charles 136, 141

Nouvel, Jean 161

Omero 38, 40

Ong, Walter 49

Orazio (Quinto Orazio Flacco) 30, 31

Orgel, Stephen 26, 33, 52

Ousby, Ian 160

Ovidio (Publio Ovidio Nasone) 55

Palissy, Bernard 38

Paradin, Claude 52n

Peake, Robert 33

Peirce, Charles 142

Pepys, Samuel 16

Perassi, Emilia 124

Percy, Henry 51

Pérec, Georges 84n

Pett, Phineas 34

Pio IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici di Marignano) 33

Platone 38

Platter, Thomas 50

Plinio (Gaio Plinio Secondo) 30, 38

Poe, Edgar Allan 115

Pound, Ezra 76n, 78

Poussin, Nicolas 166

Praz, Mario 52

Prior, Matthew 150

Proust, Marcel 15, 71, 75

Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine 162, 172

Rabelais, François 56

Raffaello (Raffaello Sanzio) 164, 165, 169

Raleigh, Walter 35

Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn) 166, 169

Reni, Guido 165

Repton, Humphrey 155

Reynolds, Joshua 169

Rhodes, Cecil 97

Ribbentrop, Joachim von 134, 138

Rodolfo II 35

Romano, Giulio 164

Ronchetti, Emanuele 15

Ronsard, Pierre de 114

Rosa, Salvator 166

Rossi, Tiziano 15

Rosso Fiorentino (Giovan Battista di Jacopo di Gasparre) 165

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 134n, 143

Rubens, Pieter Paul 164, 165, 166, 169n

Rushdie, Salman 127

Sackville-West, Lionel 170

Sackville-West, Victoria 160

Sackville-West, Vita 150, 170

Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger) 112

Samuel, Raphael 151, 154

Schama, Simon 124, 154

Scholes, Robert 76

Scuriatti, Laura 124

Seligmann, Germain 170

Seligmann, Jacques 170

Serlio, Sebastiano 31, 33, 37

Shakespeare, William 27, 39, 42, 54, 55, 56, 60, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 112, 143

Shaw, George Bernard 134

Sidney, Philip 52, 55, 150

Soane, John 16, 173

Spenser, Edmund 52, 55

Stanley, Henry M. 93n

Stephen, Adrian 109

Stevenson, Robert Louis 40

Stirling, James 161

Strimpel, Matilde 14

Strong, Roy 26, 33, 35n,

Swinburne, Charles Algernon 113

Tasso, Torquato 25

Teniers, David 166

Thatcher, Margaret 153

Thomas, Edward 152

Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) 52, 165

Tiziano (Tiziano Vecellio) 52, 164, 165, 166, 169n

Tournier, Michel 40

Turner, William 150

Tyndall, John 116

Uspensky, Boris 83

Van Dyck, Antoon 164, 165

Vanfasse, Natalie 16

Vasari, Giorgio 25

Vernet, Horace 171

Virgilio (Publio Virgilio Marone) 30

Vitruvio (Marco Vitruvio Pollione) 31, 33, 37

Wallace, Eglantine (Lady Wallace) 170

Wallace, Richard 169, 170

Walpole, Horace 150, 167, 168

Walpole, Robert 166

Walter, Natasha 158, 159

Watteau, Anotine 170

Wells, Herbert George 98, 134

Whitney, Geoffrey 52n

Wilkes, John 167

Williams, Raymond 135

Wilson, Edmund 78

Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville 135

Wolfe, John 51

Wood, Edward (Lord Halifax) 134

Woolf, Virginia 11, 17, 71, 73, 109-119

Wright, Edward 34

Wright, Patrick 149

Yates, Frances 33

Zeri, Federico 54