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.
Music and Art
- Pierre-Jean de Beranger, Le Refus (epigraph)
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, “Weber's Last Waltz" (16)
- Henry Fuseli (16)
Literature, Religion, Philosophy
- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Vevert (21), La Chartreuse (21)
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Novella di Belfagor Arcidiavolo (21)
- Emanuel Swedenborg, De Coelo et Ejus Mirabilibus, et de Inferno, et Auditis et Visis (21)
- Ludvig Holberg, Niels Klims underjordiske Rejse (21)
- Robert Fludd, Utriusque Macrocosmi at Microcosmi Historia (21), Integrum Morborum Mysterium: Medicinae Catholicae (21)
- Joannes Indagine, Die Kunst der Chiromantzey (21)
- Marinus Cureau de la Chambre, Discours sur les Principes de la Chiromancie (21)
- Johann Ludwig Tieck, Das alte Buch und die Reise ins Blaue hinein. Eine Mährchen-Novelle (21)
- Tommaso Campanella, Civitas Solis (21)
- Nicolau Aymerich, Directorium Inquisitorum (21)
- Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis (21)