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unidentified object of affection of Borges, later renamed J. M., perhaps Judith Machado

mysterious man to whom Shakespeare's sonnets are dedicated

Silva Valdés poem

13th century Viking king

city in the Netherlands

San Cristóbal de La Habana, Havana, capital of Cuba

German Orientalist, 1775-1839,  translator of part of the Arabian Nights for the Breslau edition of 1835-1843

Bustos Domecq, 1932

Parodi: obra en prosa cuyo título sugiere que posiblemente habría sido motivada por las observaciones de Badoglio sobre el abuso de galicismos por parte de Bustos.

Borges book of poems and short prose, 1960

unpublished long essay by Jorge Guillermo Borges

Quincey, 1937

Bernabé Pérez Ortiz, 1935

German scholar of China, 1864-1935, author of Chinesische Philosophie, Der Buddhismus and other works

fairies

underworld of Greek mythology

Greek god of the underworld

region in Yemen

Fate or Destiny

son of Hildebrand in the Hildebrandslied

German biologist and philosopher, 1834-1919, author of Der Kampf um den Entwicklungsgedanken, Anthropogenie and other works

Haedo is a city located in Partido of Morón, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires.

cousin of the narrator in Borges story Funes el memorioso.

Fishburn and Hughes: "Haedo was a family surname of Borges: his mother's cousin was Francisco Haedo. As a child Borges and his family spent summer vacations at the Haedo ranch near Fray Bentos. A few miles north, on the banks of the river Uruguay, there is a small town by the same name." (85) 

Borges's cousin, married to the Uruguayan writer Enrique Amorim

Borges's uncle in Uruguay, father of Esther Haedo

uncle of the narrator in Borges story "Funes"

Ibsen play on the theme of the Laxdoela Saga

Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šhīrāzī, Persian lyric poet, 1325-1389

Tulio Herrera novel, 1965

character in the Nibelungenlied

British writer, 1856-1925

German expressionist poet, perhaps the painter who died in Karlsbad in 1944

Haifeng, city in China east of Hong Kong.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Chinese town east of Hong Kong." (85) 

Japanese genre of short poem

Hyderabad, city in Andhra Pradesh state in India

Fishburn and Hughes: "A state in south central India. Nizam is the title of the reigning prince." (95)

Moore autobiography, consisting of Ave, 1911, Salve, 1912, and Vale, 1913

town in Idaho

country

Al-Moqanna, the Veiled Prophet of Khorasan, d. 779

Haakon IV, "the Old," Norwegian king, 1204-1263

count in the Heimskringla

Sturla Thordarson saga about king Hakon of Norway, who had instigated the murder of Sturla's uncle, Snorri Sturluson

character in the Njals Saga

Icelandic poet, co-author with Rognvald of the Hattalykill

Jehudah Halevi, Jewish rabbi, poet and philosopher, born in Spain, c.1075-1141, sometimes Judah ha-Levi or Judah Halevy

legendary king in the Halfssaga

Milward Kennedy, 1930.

Ellery Queen mystery, 1936

Icelandic saga about the legendary king Half

Halicarnassus, Greek city in Asia Minor

British religious figure, 1839-1934, compiler of Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book, 1936

character in the Njals Saga

scholar of Old English poetry and author of A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 1855-1931

pseudonym of Margaret Radclyffe-Hall, 1880-1943, author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, here mentioned as author of The Sixth Beatitude

Marcial Tamayo Saenz, short story. 

ora bard of Iceland

city in southeastern Germany

Union general in the U. S. Civil War, 1815-1872

Vidor film, 1929

probably Karl Ludwig von Haller, Swiss jurist and historian, 1768-1854

English astronomer, 1656-1742

Icelandic skald who died in Scotland

character in the Njals Saga

Argentine classical scholar who studied with Amado Alonso

Italian-born Argentine scholar, 1900-1986

Dutch painter, 1580-1666

tree nymphs of classical mythology

Hamburg, city in northern Germany

French classical author born in Ireland, 1646-1720, author of Memoires du comte de Gramont, Zeneyde, Les Quatres facardins and other works

Coleridge essay in Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare

Shakespeare tragedy, 1603

prince of Denmark, character in Shakespeare, called Amleth or Amlodi in earlier accounts

Michael Innes, novel, 1937.

Swedish statesman, secretary general of the United Nations, 1905-61

Austrian orientalist, 1774-1856, author of Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches and other works

US detective novelist, 1894-1961, author of Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon and other works

pseudonym of Henri Bourrillon, French writer, 1876-1962

editor of Twenty One-Act Plays, 1935

neighborhood in northern London

one of the sons of Pharez in the Bible

dynasty that ruled China from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D.

Chinese philosoopher, c. 280-233

9th century Chinese writer cited in the Anthologie raisonee de la litterature chinoise

Oliver Onions fantastic novel, 1939

German composer, 1685-1759

Lindsay prose work, 1916

US jazz and blues musician and composer, 1873-1958, editor of Blues: An Anthology and author of Father of the Blues

one of the monsters in Ezekiel's dream

town in Staffordshire, now part of Stoke-on-Trent

Maronite who aided Galland in his translation of the Arabian Nights

La ascensión de Hannele, Hauptmann play with a dream sequence, 1893

town in Missouri on the Mississippi River

Hanno, Carthaginian explorer sent to West Africa before 480 B.C., of whose report a Greek version survives

capital of Vietnam

Hugh Walpole novel, 1929

owner of a restaurant, the "3 de febrero," known in the mythology of the tango as "Lo de Hansen," in the Palermo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, from 1874 to 1892

Parodi: “la inolvidable pista de Hansen”: conocido por el apellido de su primer propietario, Juan Hansen, “Lo de Hansen” fue un café con pista de baile −para algunos, una mezcla de prostíbulo suntuario con restaurante− que desde 1877 funcionaba en los jardines de Palermo (cf. “Toros” i §2). Considerado una de las cunas del tango, fue demolido en 1912.

Bohemian-Austrian music critic, 1825-1904

biographer of Cézanne, Coleridge and others

monkey god in the Ramayana

Sioux god of thunder

Harold III , Norwegian king, d. 1066 at Stamford Bridge.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The son of a Norwegian chief who fought against the Danes under King Olaf II of Norway. At the King's death, Harald took refuge in Russia and served under the Prince of Kiev; from there he enlisted in the army of the Byzantine Emperor Michael IV. His military exploits form part of Byzantine and Norse medieval history. King of Norway from 1047, Harald expanded Norse rule over Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, and claimed the throne of England at the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, allying himself with the rebel Tostig against the new English king, Harold II. He was defeated and killed on 25 September 1066 at Stamford Bridge." (85)

Harold I , first king of Norway, c. 850-c. 933

Viking commemorated on runic inscription found in eastern Canada

Norwegian king and saint, 995-1030

U. S. president, 1865-1923

German scholar of Buddhism, 1852-1904, author of Der Buddhismus nach alteren Pali-Werken, 1890, and numerous other works on Indian religions

US film actor, 1892-1957, worked in team with Stanley Laurel

English novelist and poet, 1840-1928

Wilde poem

actress

Hugh Walpole, 1926

German theologian, 1851-1930, author of Lehrbuche der Dogmengeschichte, Geschichte der altchristlischen Litteratur and other works.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German religious historian and patrologist, famous for his formulation of Gnosticism as 'the acute Hellenisation of Christianity'. Harnack was opposed to any form of 'Hellenisation' (the interpretation of early Christianity in the light of Greek tradition), holding that Greek sources were an intrusion into Christian theology. As a result he was critical of traditional Christian dogma. See Wilhelm Bousset." (85) 

English king, son of Godwin, ear of Wessex, 1022?-1066, defeated by the Normans at the battle of Hastings.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who was defeated and killed by William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings. Harold assumed the crown on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066 in the face of two other claimants, Harald Hardrada of Norway whom he defeated at Stamford Bridge and William of Normandy." (85)

Harold Bluetooth, Danish king, d. c.985

Kipling poem

character in Bustos Domecq and Suárez Lynch stories

Parodi: 1) otro de los miembros de la banda internacional de ladrones, supuesto veterano de la guerra de Cuba. Mencionado también en “Toros” y en Modelo V. El nombre del coronel evoca el del propietario de una muy célebre casa editora de Londres, George G. Harrap (1868−1938).

2) “la noche aquella en que Harrap lo guardó en la letrina”: Parodi evoca una escena de “Goliadkin” en que el coronel Harrap impidió que Montenegro visitara en el tren el camarote de la baronne Puffendorf -Duvernois y lo encerró en el baño para caballeros, que don Isidro llama ‘letrina’; cf. “Goliadkin” i §15.

city in Ethiopia

Argentine poet, 1924-1995

US writer, born in Ireland, 1856-1931, author of My Life and Loves, biographies of Shakespeare, Shaw and Wilde, and numerous novels and collections of short stories

British scholar, 1894-1991, author of works on Shakespeare and English poetry

US writer, 1836-1902, author of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches and many other works

ghost in Lord Halifax's Ghost Book

character in Jorge Max Rohde book, combination of the Baron de Rothschild and Harun-al-Rashid

fifth Abbasid caliph, c. 764-809, sometimes Arrasid, al-Raschid, Emir de los Creyentes, even Aarón el Ortodoxo; also a character in the Arabian Nights

magazine

in Cambridge, Massachusetts

in Icelandic saga, see Havarth

author of the first three editions of the Oxford Companion to English Literature and co-author of the Oxford Companion to French Literature

Carriego poem, published posthumously

German expressionist writer, 1890-1940

ancestors of Borges through Fanny Haslam

pseudonym used by Borges in the Revista Obra, 1935-36

Borges's English grandmother, 1842-1935

author of History of the Land Called Uqbar, 1874, and A General History of Labyrinths. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional name, perhaps a tribute to Fanny Haslam, Borges's paternal English grandmother, who is recalled in 'Story of the Warrior and the Captive'. Borges has, on occasion, published under the name David Haslam. See Borges." (86)

Feuchtwanger novel, 1923, translated as The Ugly Duchess

Hassan ibn Sabbah, founder of the Assassins at the end of the 11th century

Viking warrior in Etruria

town in England, site of battle in 1066 between King Harold and William the Conqueror

British official in India, first governor-general, 1732-1818

Shakespeare's wife, 1557?-1623

Egyptian goddess of love and festivity

Sandburg poem, 1922

collection of skaldic songs

a list of verse forms by Snorri Sturluson, part of the Prose Edda

Hawara, archeological site in Egypt, here mentioned as an ancient labyrinth

La librería encantada, Christopher Morley novel, 1919

Wilkie Collins, 1878.

German playwright, 1862-1946

Hungarian art historian, 1892-1978

"Words of the High One, Odin," part of the Elder Edda

character in Icelandic saga

Icelandic saga about Havarth

town in Massachusetts

British film actress, b. 1916

Parodi: “como Errol Flynn y Olivia de Havilland en Vamos a Méjico que en inglés se llama Sombrero”: Errol Flynn (1909−1959) y Olivia de Havilland (1916−?), entre 1935 y 1941 fueron la pareja cinematográfica más célebre de Hollywood; filmaron juntos en siete ocasiones y al menos tres de esos films están ambientados en el Lejano Oeste, como la supuesta película que menciona Mariana. Los títulos que señala Mariana dan pie a una broma sobre las caprichosas titulaciones de películas extranjeras en su traducción al castellano.

island archipelago in the Pacific, former kingdom, now state in the United States

perhaps Sir John Hawkwood, English condottiere, d. 1394 in Florence

ancestors of Nathanie Hawthorne, including Major William Hathorne, early Puritan settler in Salem

US writer, 1804-1864, author of The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, The Blithedale Romance, Wakefield and other works

Carriego poem, published posthumously

US editor and publisher, 1905-1991, editor of Murder for Pleasure

French phycisian (1841-1933).

four angelic beings in Jewish tradition

English essayist, 1778-1830, author of countless essays on drama, poetry and history, as wel as travel books and letters. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "An English critic and essayist. 'Hazlitt's infinite Shakespeare' refers to Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets (1818), where he wrote: 'He was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men.... He was nothing in himself; but he was all that others were or that they could become.' Borges paraphrases these words in 'From Someone to Nobody' (TL 341) and develops Hazlitt's idea in 'Everything and Nothing' (CF 319)." (86)

The Autobiography of R, 1937 book written in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier, about the 1889 Mayerling Incident, the murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera

Dickson Carr, novel, 1946.

Chesterton story in The Wisdom of Father Brown

town in Maine

Norah Barnacle, 1884-1951, wife of James Joyce, here called by her mother's surname

English writer on religion and psychology, 1889-1971, author of Pain, Sex and Time

US writer, 1850-1904, author of various books on Japan

US financier and newspaperman, 1863-1951, model for Citizen Kane in Orson Welles movie

Wilkie Collins, 1883.

Conrad short novel, 1902

Graham Greene, novel, 1948.

a misprint for O. Henry

Harte story

Wilder novel, 1935

German tragic dramatist, 1813-1863

minor Greek goddess, daughter of Hera and Zeus

Heine, third book of the Romanzero, 1851

Yehuda Abrabanel, Jewish philosopher poet, c. 1465-1520

Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, in the Bible

Byron, 1815

in Greek mythology, goddess of ghosts and witchcraft

God

By Francisco Ayala

in Bible, Acts of the Apostles

See Faits divers de la terre et du ciel

Trojan hero, son of Priam

Verne novel

Ibsen play, 1891

character in the Prose Edda

German philosopher, 1770- 1831, author of Wissenschaft der Logik, Philosophie der Geschichte and numerous writings on logic, history, politics and aesthetics. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German philosopher, one of the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century idealism. According to Hegel's definition of reality, individual facts are not rational in themselves but only if viewed as aspects of the whole. The whole is called the 'absolute'; it is spiritual, and can only be reached by a process of logic. Deutsches Requiem: this process, known as 'dialectics', is composed of a triadic movement of thesis, the original statement, antithesis, its counterpart, to which the first gives rise, and synthesis, the unification of the two. This synthesis then becomes the new thesis in the next stage of the movement. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: Hegel's dialectical system of knowledge also operates in his vision of history. Deeply religious, Hegel viewed the universe as a manifestation of God, the absolute, who arrives at final self-knowledge through the history of finite beings. The human mind, rising from mere consciousness, passes through various stages, culminating in religion and perfect knowledge. Hegel further expands this principle by observing the various dialectic and cyclical stages of human progress in the realisation of God's purpose." (86)

warriors in the Gudrun

Fishburn and Hughes: "From the Arabic hijrah, emigration: the term for the starting point of the Muslim era, dated at 622 AD, when Mohammed fled from Mecca to Medina. The second caliph, Umari, introduced the Muslim calendar, which began with the first day of the lunar month, 16 July 622. The seventh century after the Hegira would therefore correspond to our fourteenth century." (87)

German philosopher, 1889-1976, author of Sein und Zeit and other works. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German philosopher who influenced Existentialism. Borges criticises Heidegger's philosophy as one which 'plays at desperation and anguish' but basically aims at enhancing the importance of the 'ego' and flattering its 'vanity' (‘Note on Bernard Shaw’, Other Inq. 166). Elsewhere he belittles Heidegger's achievement: 'He invented one of the German dialects, but nothing else' (Borges mem. 78). CF 391: The sentiments attributed to Heidegger's 'refutation' can be traced to his Rektoratsrede, where he demonstrates his warm reception of National Socialism, emphasising its ideas of strong, even violent, personal leadership. Heidegger speaks of a people knowing itself and discovering its own essence in the state. He places the statesman among his list of genuine creators, demanding of his leadership 'the strength to be able to walk alone'. The suggestion of Hitlerian demagoguery echoes Heidegger's words (Freiburger Studentenzeitung, Nov.3, 1933): 'The Führer himself and he alone is the German reality of today and for the future, and its law.' In later years Heidegger repudiated this position." (87)

university city in Germany

Swedish poet and novelist, 1859-1940, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916

Judaísmo y Cristianismo, Max Brod, 1921

Christ the Redeemer

Sudermann play, 1893

in Scandinavian mythology, watchman of the gods, guardian of Valhalla

1928 film based on Leonhard Frank's Karl und Anna

Snorri Sturluson's history of the Norse kings

See Heine, Heinrich

German lyric poet, 1797-1856, author of the Buch der Lieder, Romanzero and other works

German scholar, 1857-1927, author of Deutsche Dichtung, grundriss der deutscher Literaturgeschichte and other works

US science fiction writer, 1907-1988

Louis Untermeyer biography, 1937

12th century Austrian monk and poet, author of Von des todes gehugde and Das Priesterleben

German physicist, 1901-76, important for his work on quantum mechanics and the "Uncertainty Principle"

Hellanicus of Lesbos, Greek writer, fl. c. 450-406, author of lost works on mythology and history

13th century collection of stories of Germanic heroes

selections from Keller's diaries for 1936-37

religious epic poem written in Old Saxon during the reign of Ludwig the Pious, 814-840

Guillermo Torre book of Ultraist poems, 1923

Utopian socialist community founded by Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey in 1906

Greek believer in Vishnu

Varius Avitus, called Heliogabalus or Elagabalus, Roman emperor, c.205-222.  

Fishburn and Hughes: "A dissolute Roman emperor, originally named Bassianus. He served in the Roman army in Syria, where he was popular with the Roman troops for his exceptional beauty, and was appointed high priest of the sun god of Emesa, Elagabal. Elected emperor in 218 at the age of 15, he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and added 'Heliogabalus' in honour of the god whose secret rites he introduced into the capital. His brief reign, marked by debauchery and cruelty, exemplifies a decadent and turbulent imperial court. Jealous of the popularity of his abstemious cousin, Alexander, he attempted to murder him; he was later killed by the Praetorian Guard in a latrine, together with his mother. The anecdote of the emperor writing 'on shells the lots... destined for his guests' is told by Lampridius in the Historia Augusta (2.22.1)." (87)

ancient city in Egypt, now northeastern part of Cairo. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A city in Egypt important for the worship of the sun god Ra. Among its few remains are the obelisks known as Cleopatra's needles." (87)

religious center of the Ituraean tetrarchy, now called Baalbek in Lebanon

character in Bioy Casares novel

old Norse name for Labrador

character in Ibsen's The Doll House

The Loyalty and Bravery of the Swiss: inscription on the Lion Monument in Lucerne, Switzerland

Norse monster

US novelist, 1899-1961, author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kiliminjaro and numerous other works

Runeberg treatise maintaining that Judas was the Messiah, 1909

town in northern Germany

learned doctor mentioned by Gibbon, d. 1787

author of The Life and Times of John Wilkins, 1910

Jutish leader of 5th century invasion of Britain with his brother Horsa

German Lutheran divine and theologian, 1802-1869, author of Christologie des Alten Testaments and editor of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A German Protestant theologian and leader of the orthodox Lutherans, a bitter opponent of 'rationalism' as a method of Old Testament criticism. In 1830 he mounted a violent attack on the rationalist Gesenius." (88)

English pastor, translator of Beckford's Vathek from French to English in 1785

English poet, 1849-1903, collaborator with Stevenson on Deacon Brodie and author of Invictus

scholar, 1901-1974, author of The Lonely Tower, a study of Yeats

German theologian, author of Terrae incognitae, 1944-1956

German scholar of the Islamic world, 1861-1927, translator of the Koran and the Arabian Nights

Voltaire epic poem on Henri IV of France, 1723

Dominican diplomat, essayist and historian, 1885-1968, author of Breve historia de modernismo and other works

Dominican critic and teacher, 1884-1946, author of Ensayos críticos, Historia de la cultura en la América Hispánica and other works. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A critic and teacher from the Dominican Republic, once considered the foremost Latin American literary historian. He spent most of his later life in Buenos Aires where he was one of the original contributors to Sur, the literary magazine founded by Victoria Ocampo. Henriquez Ureña was a long-standing friend of Borges and collaborated with him in the publication of Antología clásica de la literatura, argentina (1937)." (88)

West biography, 1916

Shakespeare historical play, c. 1597

Shakespeare play, 1613

character in The Picture of Dorian Gray

riva of Deor in the Deor

US film actress, 1907-2003

Greek god of metalworking

collection of tales by Marguerite de Navarre, 1558

Parodi: “el Heptamerón de la Reina Margarita”: se trata de una colección de relatos escritos por Marguerite d’Angoulême (1492-1549), más conocida como Marguerite de Navarre, que fue princesa de Orleans y reina consorte de Navarra. A semejanza del Decamerón de Boccaccio (cf. infra), en el Heptameron (1540-1549), diez viajeros sorprendidos por una tempestad se refugian en una abadía y durante siete días cuentan historias que comentan los oyentes; el resultado son setenta y dos relatos sobre el tema del amor, que describen y satirizan prácticas eróticas sobre todo de la corte renacentista de Navarra.

goddess in Greek mythology

Euripides drama

hero in Greek mythology, see Hercules

Heraclides Ponticus the Younger, Greek grammarian and poet, fl. c. 30-60. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek philosopher, born in Heraclea (Pontus), a pupil of Speusippus and Plato. Many books in philosophy, rhetoric, music and mathematics are attributed to him, though nothing survives. Diogenes Laertius states that Heraclides, a trickster by nature, once persuaded the people of Heraclea that, by giving him a golden crown, they would avoid the famine which threatened their city. Before dying he arranged for his corpse to disappear, wishing people to believe that he had ascended bodily to Heaven, but the plan was discovered and his name ridiculed." (88)

Heraclitus of Abdera or Ephesus, Greek philosopher, c. 535-c. 475. 

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Presocratic philosopher, of whose work only oracular fragments remain. His philosophy, in opposition to that of Parmenides, was based on the principle of permanent movement in nature due to the continuously changing character of its primordial element, fire; the process takes the form of a perpetual conflict of opposites, struggle and unity. This concept found echoes in the dialectics of Hegel. Isolated epigrammatic remarks by Heraclitus on his contemporaries and predecessors survive, mainly pungent and contemptuous." (88)

French orientalist, 1625-1695, author of a Bibliothèque orientale

English poet, 1593-1623, author of The Temple

poem in Rilke's Buch der Bilder

Portuguese novelist and historian, 1810-1877

Heracles or Herakles, hero in Greek mythology

nickname for Olaf Haraldsson

Agatha Chirstie, novel, 1938.

Frank Fraser Darling book, 1937

German philosopher and critic, 1744-1803, author of Uber die neuere deutsche Literatur, Uber den Ursprung der Sprache, Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit and other works

wife of Snorri Sturluson

French Parnassian poet born in Cuba, 1842-1905, author of Les Trophées

city in western England

Chesterton book, 1905

English leader of the resistance to William the Conqueror

Hermann of Reichenau or Herimannus Augiensis, German scholar and chronicler, 1013-1054, author of a Chronicum ad annum 1054

Freeman biography, 1926

Weaver monograph, 1921

Borges and Levinson story

Bratya Karamazovy, Dostoevski novel, 1880

Marx Brothers, US comedic actors

Beccadelli or "Panormita" collection of obscene epigrams

Parodi: “El hermafrodita de Antonio Panormitano”: Antonio Beccadelli (1394−1471), llamado el Panormitano, fue poeta, jurista, diplomático y humanista siciliano. El hermafrodita (1425), la primera colección de poesía erótica latina publicada durante el Renacimiento, reúne ochenta epigramas; la Iglesia prohibió su lectura por licenciosa. Desde 1443, Beccadelli fue protegido de Alfonso V de Aragón (1396-1458) en el reino de Nápoles.

Swinburne poem

Greek god

Fishburn and Hughes: "In Greek mythology the herald or messenger of the gods, the protector of herdsmen and the god of science, commerce, invention, the arts and, above all, travellers. In this last role Hermes was also the guide of the souls of the dead to their final abode (psychopompos). In art he is usually represented as a vigorous youth with winged helmet and sandals. A guide in both life and death, Hermes is referred to as two-faced." (89).

brand of boots

Parodi: “traje de montar de Redfern, ponchillo de Patou, botas de Hermés, maquillaje pleinair de Elizabeth Arden”: marcas de ropa y de cosméticos, todas de lujo y alta moda.

Hermes Trismegistus, Greek translation of name of Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, to whom the hermetic books were attributed

Fishburn and Hughes: "A collection of occult writings, known as the Corpus Hermeticum, dating from the first to the third centuries. Their origin was ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth, who received from the Greeks the name Hermes Trismegistos ('thrice-great Hermes'). They include a text called Asclepius, thought to have been used by St Augustine in the writing of Civitas Dei." (89)

one of Pythagoras's previous incarnations, a soldier in the Trojan War

soldier at Paysandú

Mexican writer, 1904-1958

Argentine politician and gauchesque poet, 1834-86, author of the Martín Fierro as well as Instrucción de estanciero, Vida de Chacho and other prose collected in Prosas de Martín Fierro

Parodi: 1) político, periodista y poeta argentino, autor de El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) y su continuación, La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1876).

2) “do ya braceara José Hernández”: José Hernández, el autor del poema El gaucho Martín Fierro (cf. “Palabra” §13), fue un decidido partidario de López Jordán. Tras el asesinato de Urquiza, Hernández se unió a la rebelión del caudillo entrerriano; derrotado el movimiento en 1871, Hernández partió al exilio.

public scribe, stock figure

brother and biographer of José Hernández, author of Pehuajó

father of José and Rafael Hernández

gaucho, member of the Unión Cívica Radical who was killed in Paso de los Libres in 1934

Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee mentioned in New Testament, d. c.39 A.D.

king of Judea who ordered the massacre of the innocents, reigned 40-4 B. C.

Greek historian, 484?-425?.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek historian, born in Halicarnassus, known as the 'father of history'. After travelling in Asia Minor, Greece and Egypt, Herodotus settled in the Greek colony of Thurii in Italy. His History, full of charm and subtlety, relates the struggle between Greece and Persia, with numerous digressions. CF 171: Herodotus (2.87) gives details of the Phoenix, having seen it in a painting, and describes the bird's ritual returns to Heliopolis." (89)

name for Juan Manuel de Rosas after the campaign of 1833 against the pampas Indians

bar in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi: célebre calle de la ciudad de Viena.

Uruguayan politician, 1841-1912, also the name of a street in Montevideo

Uruguayan modernist poet, 1875-1910, author of Los parques abandonados, Los éxtasis de la montaña and other works

Parodi: poeta modernista uruguayo, 1875-1910, autor de Los parques abandonados (1902-1908), Los éxtasis de la montaña (1904-1907). Herrera es mencionado también en “Gradus” §23.

Spanish poet, 1534-1597

character in Bustos Domecq story, author of Hagase hizo, Madrugar temprano and other works

Parodi: escritor supuestamente nacido en Buenos Aires un 24 de agosto (el mismo día en que, en 1899, nacía Borges). Bustos le atribuye tres obras: una Apología; el poemario Madrugar temprano y la novela Hágase hizo.

Argentine literary scholar, author of El poeta de hombre: Almafuerte y su obra, 1918

Spanish poet who lived in Argentina, associated with the Centro Republicano Español

English poet, 1591-1674

family in cycle of Hugh Walpole novels

author of Zen in the Art of Archery, 1953

author of Zen in the Art of Flower Arrangement, 1958

German scholar, author of Nordische Mythologie and Danische Geschichte des Saxo Grammaticus

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Teutonic fertility goddess, formerly known as Nerthus, said by Tacitus to have been worshipped by early German tribes (Germania 40). Hertha corresponds to the Nordic Jord, earth goddesss and mother of Thor. In Germanic sagas Hertha (or Erda) is the oldest and wisest of the gods to whom Wotan appeals for knowledge." (89)

German physicist who was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation, 1857-1894

strait in the Uruguay River, also nearby tableland south of Salto in Uruguay where Artigas set up his headquarters

Austro-Hungarian journalist, 1860-1904, father of political Zionism

Greek poet, 8th century B.C., author of Works and Days and the Theogony

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Greek epic poet, a near-contemporary of Homer and author of the Theogony and Works and Days. The Theogony details the history of the gods from their emergence from chaos to the moment when Pandora, the first woman, is entrusted by Zeus with ajar containing all the evils 90 which she will let loose on humanity. The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: in the Works and Days Hesiod combines the moral teachings of the Theogony with rural precepts: continuing the story of Pandora, he traces the decline of mankind from the golden age through the silver and bronze ages down to the present iron age. The later part describes the various tasks which face the farmer and the appropriate times of year in which to perform them, harmonising the rhythm of nature with that of human life." (89)

Swiss poet and novelist, 1877-1962

Heston Aerodrome was a 1930s airfield to the west of London near Cranford

king of the Hegelings in the Gudrun

St. Ambrose work on Cain and Abel

German poet, 1887-1912

German writer, 1891-1985, associated with expressionism in his youth

Persian collection, the "Thousand Stories," probably derived from Sanskrit sources, and itself a source of the Arabian Nights

Longfellow poem, 1855.

Roman name for Ireland.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The Latin name for Ireland." (90)

Peruvian avant-garde poet, 1897-1967

Uruguayan poet, creator of gauchesque poetry, 1788-1822

author of a Vocabulario de germanía, 1609