Tennessee), 260, 261 Doulos Evangelical traveling, 287
of Elba (2300 B.C.), i59 Father Christmas (Finland), 287
the Fatimid (Cairo), i24 Forum of Trajan (Rome), i59 Freiburg University, i37 Freie Universitat (Berlin),
i34, i37
Geneytouse, 288 the Great Corvina, i24 Habott (Mauritania),
Reading-room, 166 Harvard, 78
Herzog August Bibliothek
(Wolfenbuttel), 92, 93 Hitler's, 288 Imperial (Vienna), 254 Italian National, 295 Laurentian (Florence), i5o, i50-5i
Michelangelo's staircase to, i54-55 Lebanon's National, 302-4 London, 43 Lublin Yeshiva, 238 National of Baghdad, looting
of, 262-64, 263 National of Buenos Aires, 272 (Captain) Nemo's submarine, 286
New York Public (New York
City), 78 New York State, 58 Palatine Hill, excavation of, 55-56
of Pergamum, i58, i59 Petrarch's, 294-95 Poitiers, 30i
Queens Borough Public (New York City), 305 Royal of France, i38 Le Presbytere, 8 San Francisco, 72 Sholem Aleichem (Poland),
237
Sissinghurst's (the Long
Hall), ii Stanford, 78
Theresienstadt Ghetto, 248 Toronto Reference, i30, i35
Turgeniev (Paris), 26i Turin's Chemical Institute,
ii3—14 Vatican, 70
Wolfenbuttel, 136, i37 the library (author's). See also the study (author's) acquisitions for, i6—17 in childhood, 37—39 description of, i2—14, 4i at night, i2—18, i93 organization of, 4i—43, 5i,
6i—63, 65—66, i77, i93 origins of, 7—i2, i29, i3i,
i33—34
photograph of, 8 light, effects of the, 269—7i literacy, values to be seen in
encouraging, 259—60 literatura de cordel, 45, 46 Livy, 32, 7i
Llosa, Mario Vargas, i85 Lobato, Monteiro, 39 the Louvre Museum, 266 Louis XV, 85 Lovecraft, H.P., 284 Lucan, Marcus, i4—15 Lucian, 279
Macaulay, Rose, i95 Machiavelli, Niccolo, i52,
^9-90,i93 MacLeish, Archibald, i08 Maghribi, Abul-Qasim al-, 53 Magnusson, Arni, i25—26 Mahfouz, Naguib, i5
Malesherbes, Lamoignon de, 86 Mandelstam, Osip, 262 Mangan, James T., 226 Mann, Heinrich, 237 Mann, Thomas, 242, 248 Mansur, Abit-Amir al-, i24 Manutius, Aldus, 3i5 Marmol, Jose, 272 Martmez, Tomas Eloy, 44 Mary (Queen of Scots), 295 Masson, Paul, 282—84
portrait of, 283 May, Karl, 288 McCarthy, Joseph, ii7 McCarthy, Mary, 43 McLuhan, Marshall, 79 Mellarme, Stephane, 29 Melot, Michel, i33 Melville, Herman, 27 memory
books as a threat to, 2i7—18 the fundamental nature of, 203—4
libraries and, 24, 27, 30—32,
40, 53—54, i23, i88—89, i94—97,322—23
seen as desire, 209 Mencken, H.L., Ю3—4 Michaels, Anne, 293 Michelangelo, i50—60 Michelet, Jules, 285 microfilm, as unreliable, 73—74 Milton, John, 272, 3i2 Mistry, Rohinton, 245 Mnemosyne panels, Warburg's, 210
Montaigne, Michel de, 15, 317
his library tower, 16 Moore, Patrice, 7i his book-clogged apartment,
72
More, Thomas, 276, 279 Morrison, Thomas, 97—98 Musee de l'Oeuvre Notre Dame, i69
Musil, Robert, 44, 254
National Archives (Baghdad),
looting of, 262—64, 263 Naude, Gabriel, 81, 318—19
his title page on libraries, 80 Neruda, Pablo, ii5 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 207 Nobel Prize Committee, 257 Nuwas, Abu, i96
O'Brien, Flann, 255 Ocampo, Silvina, 220—22 Ocampo, Victoria, 272 the Odyssey, 29, 219, 222,
307—8
Omar I, Caliph, 33, 117 oral traditions, 196—97, 315 Orwell, George, 197 Ouadane oasis, i65 Ovid, 43, 50, 195, 243
Pablos, Juan (Giovanni Paoli), i20
Pacioli, Luca, i60 Panizzi, Sir Antonio, 145, 147,
297, 297—300, 305
papyrus, export restrictions on, 22
parchment, the invention of, 22 parody, 279—80
the Patriot Act (United States of
America), i25 Paul, Saint (the Apostle), 233 Pepys, Samuel, 37, 57 Peron, General Juan, 94—95, 272 Petrarch, Francesco, 4, 16, 253,
3i7
his life, 294 Philip of Macedon, 264 Photius, 265
Pinochet, General Augusto, 115 Pinto, Fernao Mendes, 216 Plato, 51, 129, 159, 194, 279, 317 Pliny the Elder, 27i Pliny the Younger, 39 Plutarch, 32, 314 Pollio, Asinius, 55 Polo, Marco, i69 Polyxena (the victim), 244—45 Potter, Beatrix, 39 Pound, Ezra, 42 power, the drive for, 100 Prescott, William, 118, 121 progress, the illusion of, 232—33 Project Gutenberg, 228 Propertius, Sextus, 50 Proust, Marcel, 237 Ptolemaic kings, 20—22, 24, 27, 31 Pushkin, Alexander, 262 Qalqashandi, al- (Egyptian
scholar) 264 Queen of Sheba, 253 quoting, functions of, 224
Rabelais, Francois, 275-80, 285
his home, 278 Rais, Shah Muhammad, 258,
258-59
Raphael (the painter), i52 Ratzinger, Joseph (cardinal), ii6 Raverat, Gwen, illustration by,
28i
reading. See also books; libraries; Library aloud, 6i, i79, i96, 230, 272 the craft of, 232-33 "the cursory mode of,"
255-56
the powers gained from, 9i prevention of. See illiteracy silent, 56
tasks associated with, 277 the teaching of. See literacy revenge, the impulse toward,
244
Rimbaud, Arthur, 43 Robinson Crusoe, librarian &
missionary, 2i5-17 Rockwood, Roy, 39 Rorty, Richard, 3i8 Rosenberg, Alfred, 238 Rosensaft, Yossl, 249 Rothenberg, Jeff, 76 Roudaut, Jean, 323 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 207, 3i6 Ruhnken, David, ii2 Rulfo, Juan, i97 Rushdie, Salman, i5
Ryback, Timothy W., 288
Saint John. See John, Saint (the
Apostle) Saint Paul. See Paul, Saint (the
Apostle) Saint-Priest, Etienne Dumont, 288
Salgari, Emilio, 39 Sallust, 7i Sand, George, 285 Saxl, Fritz, i98, 202, 205, 207-8 Sayers, Dorothy L., 293 Schama, Simon, 43 Schipper, Yitzhak, 24i-42 Schmidt, Arno, i82 scrolls, library storage of illustrated, 57 Semon, Richard, 203-4 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, i3i,
i88, 279 on books & wisdom, 3i4-i6 Shakespeare, William, 243, 293 Shaw, T.E. See Lawrence of Arabia
Shearer, Rhonda Roland, 77-78 Sheba. See Queen of Sheba Shelley, Mary. See
Frankenstein's monster Shotoku, Empress (Japan), 8i Siculus, Diodorus, 26, 264-65 Siddhartha, Prince. See also
Buddha, i69 Sikorskaja, Elena, 322-23 Sloane, Sir Hans, 296 Smith, Logan Pearsall, 6i
Sn0hetta (architectural studio), 22
Socrates, 282
despiser of books, 217—18 Solomon, King, 253 Song Taizong, Emperor, 49 Sophocles, 107, 127 Spencer, Earl of, 68 Stein, Aurelius Marcus, 171—74 Steiner, George, 307 Stendhal, 43
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 4,
11—12,164,194 Stoker, Bram. See Dracula,
Count Vladislaus Stoppard, Tom, i27 Strabo (Greek geographer), 20, 26
the study (author's) contents of, i78 significance of, 178—90 stupa. See Buddhist stupa Suleiman I, Sultan, 124 symbols the importance of, 203—4, 206, 208—9