H.M. Vaughan, The Medici Popes, Leo X and Clement VII (London: Macmillan, i908).
Rime e lettere diMichelangelo, ed. P. Mastrocola (Turin: UTET, 1992).
Quoted in Wallace, Michelangelo at San Lorenzo.
"Quand'avvien c'alcun legno non difenda/il proprio umor fuor del terrestre loco,/nonpuo far c'algran caldo assai opoco/non
si secchi o non s'arda o non s'accenda.// Cosi'l cor, tolto da chi maimel renda,/vissuto inpianto e nutrito di foco,/o ch'e fuor delsuoproprio albergo e loco,/qualmal fie cheper morte non l'offenda?" in Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime, ed. E.N. Girardi (Bari: Laterza, i960).
Giorgio Vasari, "Michelangelo Buonarroti," in Lives of the Artists, Vol. I, trans. George Bull (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, i987).
Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, 3d edition (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964).
Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World.
See Kenneth Clark, "The Young Michelangelo," in J.H. Plumb, The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (London: Collins, 1961).
Luca Pacioli, Divine Proportion (New York: Abaris, 2005).
the library as chance
Henry James, "The Figure in the Carpet," in Embarrassments (London: William Heinemann, i896).
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Travel," in A Child's Garden of Verses (London: The Bodley Head, i896).
Theodore Monod, Meharees (Arles: Actes Sud, 1989).
A.M. Tolba, Villes de sable: Les cites bibliotheques du desert mau- ritanien (Paris: Hazan, i999).
Pausanias, Guide to Greece, trans. Peter Levi (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1971); Vol. II, VI:6.
Jacques Gies and Monique Cohen, "Introduction" to Serinde, Terre de Bouddha (Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1995).
Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams (ed.), The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith (London: British Library, 2004).
Pieces shown in Gies and Cohen, Serinde, Terre de Bouddha, and in Whitfield and Sims-Williams, The Silk Road.
Liu Jung-en, ed., introduction to Six Yuan Plays (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972).
Mark Aurel Stein, Serindia, Vol. I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921).
Quoted in Whitfield and Sims-Williams, The Silk Road.
the library as workshop
Battista Guarino, "A Program of Teaching and Learning," in Humanist Educational Treatises, ed. and trans. Craig W. Kallendorf (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2002).
Dora Thornton, The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997).
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S.G.C. Middlemore (London, 1878).
Cicero, "Cicero to Atticus, April 59," in Selected Letters, trans. D.R. Shackelton Bailey (London: Penguin, 1986).
"Cicero to Atticus, 10 March 45," ibid.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (London: The Hogarth Press, i929).
N. Sanz and Ruiz de la Pena, La Casa de Cervantes en Valladolid (Valladolid: Fundaciones Vega-Inclan, i993).
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Celina S. de Cortazar and Isa^as Lerner (Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, 1969); I:VI.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Poema de los dones," in El hacedor (Buenos Aires: Emece, i960).
Jorge Luis Borges, "Autobiographical notes," in The New Yorker (New York, 19 September, 1970).
Borges, "Al iniciar el estudio de la gramatica anglosajona," in El hacedor.
Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca.
William Blake, "Milton," Pl.35, 42—45 in The Complete Poems, ed. Alicia Ostriker (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1977).
Badr al-Din Muhammed Ibn Jama'a, Tadhkirat al-sami,' quoted in Berkey, The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo.
Nasir al-Din Tusi, Risala, ibid.
Quoted in Robert Irwin, Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature (London: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, i999).
the library as mind
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Literary Works of Machiavelli, ed. John Hale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961).
Philippe Aries, Essais sur l'histoire de la mort ven occident: du moyen age a nos jours (Paris: Seuil, 1975).
Revelation 20:i2.
See Berkey, The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo.
Toni Cassirer, Mein Leben mit Ernst Cassirer, Hildesheim, 1981, quoted in Salvatore Settis, "Warburg continuatus," in Le pouvoir des bibliotheques: La memoire des livres en Occident, ed. Marc Baratin and Christian Jacob (Paris: Albin Michel, 1996).
Ernst Cassirer, "Der Begriff der symbolischen Form im Aufbau der Geisteswissenschaften," in Vortrage der Bibliothek Warburg, I, 1921—1922 (Leipzig & Berlin, 1923).
"Ein kleiner Herr mit schwarzem Schnurrbart der manchmal Dialektgeschichten erz^hlt," quoted in Ernst Gombrich, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (London: The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1970). I have revised Gombrich's English translation.
"dadurch offenbar das Mittelgefunden, mich von einer erschuttern- den Gegenwart, die mich wehrlos machte, abzuziehen. . . . Die Schmerzempfindung reagierte sich ab in der Fantasie des Romantisch- Grausamen. Ich machte da die Schutzjmpfung gegen das aktiv Grausame durch ... ," in Aby Warburg, Notes for Lecture on Serpent Ritual, 1923, pp. 16—18, quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
Ron Chernow, The Warburgs (New York: Random House, 1993).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dichtung und Wahrheit, II:8 in Goethes Werke, Band IX, Autobiographische Schriften I, Ed. Liselotte Blumenthal (Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1994).
2i 6. Ernst Cassirer, "Der Begriff der symbolischen Form im Aufbau der Geisteswissenschaften."
As Gombrich notes.
"Das Gedachtnis als organisierte Materie," in Ewald Hering, Uber das Gedachtnis als eine allgemeine Funktion der organisierten Materie (Lecture, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna, 30 May, 1870), 3 ed. (Leipzig, 1921).
The story of the controversy is told by Salvatore Settis in "Warburg continuatus," in Quadernistorici, 58/a XX, no. 1, (April i985).
Fritz Saxl, "The History of Warburg's Library (1886—1944)," appendix to Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
"Aalsuppenstil," quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
Richard Semon, Die Mneme als erhaltendes Princip im Wechsel des organischen Geschehens, 2d ed. (Leipzig: W. Engelman, 1908).
"GespenstergeschichtefurganЈErwachsene."Aby Warburg, Grundbegriffe, I, p.3, quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
"das Nachleben der Antike," quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
"Wie ein Seismograph hatten seine empfindlichen Nerven die unterirdischen Erschutterungen schon dann ver^eichnet, als andere sie noch vollig uberhorten." Carl Georg Heise, in Personliche Erinnerungen an Aby Warburg (Hamburg: Gesellschaft der Bucherfreunde, 1959).