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I n d e x We of this age have discovered a shorter and more prudent way to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or thinking. The most accomplished way of using books at present is two fold: either first to . . . learn their titles exactly and then brag of their acquaintance ; or secondly . . . to get a thorough insight into the index by which the whole book is governed . . . the arts are all in a flying march and therefore more easily subdued by attacking them in the rear. . . . Thus men catch knowledge by throwing their wit upon the posteriors of a book. (Jonathan Swift, The Tale of a Tub, Section VII, ‘‘A Digression in Praise of Digressions ’’) [94–95, 280n139] Page references in italics refer to illustrations absolutism, Bourbon, 109, 156, 171 Accursius, Bonus, 11 Achmet III, destruction of printing press, 288n137 Act Against Tumultuous Petitioning (England ), 270n152 Adams, John: on Condorcet, 151, 152, 188, 293n235; on Franklin, 141–42; on French Revolution, 152 Adams, Samuel, 141 ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), 237 Addison, Joseph, 119–20, 127, 132, 280n141, 281n2 advertise, advertisements, advertising, 78, 79, 121–22, 211–12, 216, 242 aesthetes, fin-de-siècle, 222 aesthetic movements, twentieth-century, 231 Alberti, Leon Battista, on invention of printing , 7 Aldus (or Aldine). See Manutius, Aldus Alexandria, Library of, 86; destruction of, 88, 131, 237, 238 Allen, P. S., 15, 254nn75, 82 Almon, John, 132 Altick, Richard, 187, 195 Amerbach, Johann, 4, 18, 31, 252n58, 254n73 America: colonial printers of, 18, 100–101; naming of, 67. See also Virginia American Revolution, role of print in, 140– 41, 148 Ames, Joseph, 200 ancient authors (Greco-Roman): destruction of works, 237; preservation of, 11–12, 24, 251n52; recovery of, 80, 88, 162, 238; veneration for, 65, 66, 67; view of publishing, 23– 24, 128 ancients versus moderns, 65, 80–81, 86, 93, 274n39, 275n44,57 Anderson, Benedict, 241–42, 243 Andrews, William Eusebius, 255n88 Anglicans, 50, 51, 52, 178 antisemitism, 4, 209, 217, 304n59, 307n40. See also Drumont; Jews; Protocols Antwerp business press, 201 Arabic, 87 architecture, Gothic, 167–70, 195, 228 Aretino, Pietro, 201, 203, 302n18 Arnaud, Abbé, 138 Arnold, Matthew, 187, 192 arts and crafts movement, 195, 223 astrolabes, 70, Atkyns, Richard, 101, 270n147, 281n10; Original and Growth of Printing, 54–55 348 index Aubrey, John, 126 Augustine, Saint, De Arte Praedicandi, 13–14 authors: ambivalent about print, 7, 22, 24, 101, 232; anonymous and pseudonymous, 140, 142; ‘‘blessed age’’ for (Swift), 118; as celebrities, 20–21, 99, 117, 194; dependent on intermediaries, 4, 21, 256n117; downtrodden , 4, 21, 24–25, 107, 197; as dunces, 116, 277n81; harmless (Voltaire), 136; increased numbers of, 80, 86, 95, 116, 239; praise of printing, 11–12, 17, 80, 100, 107, 244. See also ancient authors; Men of Letters avant-garde movements, manifestos of, 233–34 Bacchus, 12, 252n59 Bacon, Francis: on ancients versus moderns, 80; belief in progress, 81–83; on censorship, 51–52; d’Alembert on, 123; Diderot on, 123; Instauratio Magna, 81, , 83; on invention of printing, 83; Johnson on, 122; Novum Organum, 84; on theological disputation, 84 Baconians, 84–85, 118; Swift on, 94 Bade, Josse (also Badius), 18–19, 255n100; and Erasmus, 24; prefaces of, 252n55 Baillet, Adrien, 89, 277n95 Baker, Nicholson, 243 Bale, John, 36, 38, 262n9 ballads, printed and oral transmission of, 162–63 Balzac, Honoré de, 232; Les chouans, 197; Illusions perdues, 196–97 barbarians, barbarism, 67; association with printing, 87; disappearance of, 93; in The Dunciad, 112, 115; effect of printing on, 129; Italian view of Germans, 31; nineteenthcentury views, 216–17 Barbarus, Franciscus, 30 Barber, Giles, 123–24 Barthélmy, Abbé, 138 Basel, English exiles at, 36 Bastwick, John, 52–61 Bayle, Pierre, 110; on publishers, 127 Beal, Peter, 239n13 Behaim, Martin, 70 Benda, Julien, 220, 306n26 Bénichou, Paul, 194 Benjamin, Walter, 307n41 Bennett, Arnold, 231, 233 Bennett, H. S., 21 Bennett, James Gordon, 208 Bentham, Jeremy, 148; dislike of poetry, 191, 300n179; Panopticon of, 192 Benthamites: belief in useful knowledge, 188–89; Romantic scorn for, 160. See also utilitarianism Bentley, Richard: on Robert Estienne, 126; St. James Library, 280nn142,149; Swift’s attack on, 92, 280n142 Berkeley, William (colonial governor of Virginia ), xi, 56, 247n5 Bertier de Sauvigny, Guillaume de, 294n12 Bertrand, Jean-Elie, 128–29 Bessarion, Cardinal, 254n84 Beughem, Cornelius van, 281n11 Bibles: Geneva, 36; Greek, 126; Hebrew, 288n133; Rheims-Douai, 47; scribes’ corruption of, 49 Bibles, vernacular, 28, 36, 39, 47, 157; condemned at Trent, 45, 265n67...
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