by Jamie James
Italy; homosexuality legal in; Kingdom of; unification of
James, Henry; The Turn of the Screw
Japan; art
Jarry, Alfred; Ubu Roi
Jazz Age
Jerome, Thomas Spencer; Aspects of the Study of Roman History; in Capri; “The Orgy of Tiberius on Capri”; Roman Memories in the Landscape Seen from Capri; Vestal Fire
Jethou
Jews; Nazi persecution of
Joan of Arc
John, Augustus
Jonson, Ben, Sejanus, His Fall
Joyce, James; Finnegans Wake
Julia, daughter of Augustus
Juvenal
Kaun, Alexander
Keats, John
Khayyám, Omar, Rubáiyát
Kopisch, August; The Discovery of the Blue Grotto of Capri
Koteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich
kouros
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Krupp, Friedrich Alfred
Krupp Gardens
Lang, Fritz
Langer, Cassandra
Latin
Latvia
Laurent, Raymond
Lawrence, D. H.; in Capri; Compton Mackenzie and; “The Man Who Loved Islands”; Memoir of Maurice Magnus; “Two Blue Birds”; The Woman Who Rode Away
Lawrence, Frieda
Legrand, Cloton
Leighton, Lord Frederic
lemons
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
lesbianism; Romaine Brooks and; laws; short hair
Lesbos
Levi, Carlo
Libera, Adalberto
Lieber, Heinrich
Life and Letters To-day
limestone
Liszt, Franz
literature; by Joseph Conrad; conversation novel; Decadent; by Norman Douglas; by Jacques Fersen; Futurist; by Maxim Gorky; by D. H. Lawrence; by Curzio Malaparte; by Pablo Neruda; by August von Platen; by Rainer Maria Rilke; Russian. See also specific authors, works, and genres
Livia
Livy, History of Rome
Locré, Loulou
London
Lorca, Federico García
Loti, Pierre
Louis XVI, King of France
Louvre Museum
Lübeck
Luce, Henry
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Luzzatti, Luigi
Lysis
Mackenzie, Compton; Carnival; The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett; Extraordinary Women; D. H. Lawrence and; Sinister Street; Vestal Fire
Mackenzie, Faith
MacKowen, John Clay
Macpherson, Kenneth
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Magnus, Maurice; Memoirs of the Foreign Legion
Malaparte, Curzio; in Capri; Kaputt; The Skin; Technique du coup d’état
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Malta
Manet, Édouard; Déjeuner sur l’herbe
Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals
Mann, Thomas; Death in Venice
Man Ray
Maoism
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Marie-Caroline, Queen of Naples
Marina Grande
Marina Piccola
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso; The Island of Kisses; “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature”; translation of Germania
Marxism
Massenet, Jules
Massine, Léonide
Mata Hari
Matermania
Maugham, W. Somerset; “The Lotus Eater”; “Mayhew”; Our Betters
Maupeou, Blanche de
Megaride
Memoirs of Baron Jacques: Damnable Lubricities of the Decadent Nobility
Mercure de France
Milan
Milton, John, Paradise Regained
Mithras, cult of
modernism
Monet, Claude
Money, James, Capri: Island of Pleasure
Monte Cassino
Monte Solaro
Montesquiou, Robert de
Monte Tiberio
Moor, Elisabeth
Morand, Paul; Venises
Morante, Elsa
Moravia, Alberto; Agostino; Il disprezzo
Morgano, Carmen
Morgano, Donna Lucia
Morgano, Giuseppe
Morgano, Mario
Morgano, Nicolino
Morgano Tiberio Palace
Moscow
Moscow Art Theater
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Marriage of Figaro
Munich
Munthe, Axel; The Story of San Michele
Musée du Luxembourg
music
Musset, Alfred de
Mussolini, Benito
Mytilene
Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire
Naples
Naples Aquarium
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars
narcissism
Narcissus
Nazism; in Capri
neoclassicism
Nero
Neruda, Pablo; in Capri; The Captain’s Verses; “Night on the Island”; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
New Statesman, The
New York
New Yorker, The
New York Herald, The
Nice
Nicomedia
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nijinsky, Vaslav
North Africa
Notari, Umberto
Nouguès, Jean and n
Nureyev, Rudolf
nymphaeum
occult
Oceanism
Octavian. See Augustus
Ogrine, Will
Onassis, Aristotle
Onassis, Jacqueline
opera
opium
orgies; Krupp scandal; of Tiberius
Orgy in Capri, of Tiberius
Orwell, George; Animal Farm
Oskar II, King of Sweden
Ottoman Empire
Our Betters (film)
Ovid
Paestum
Pagano, Manfredi
Painters’ Plaza
painting and painters; Romaine Brooks; in Capri; Futurist; tourist. See also specific painters
Palance, Jack
Palazzo a Mare
Palazzo dei Leoni
Palazzo Fortuny, La Divina Marchesa at
Pan and Daphnis
Pandateria
papacy
Paris; Fersen scandal; Salon
Paris Opéra
paroliberismo
Parthenopean Republic
Pascale, Anita de
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Pavelić, Ante
Peacock, Thomas Love
pederasty; in ancient Greece; Jacques Fersen and; Krupp scandal
pedophilia
Peking
Penau
Persia; poetry
Petronius; Satyricon
Peyrefitte, Roger; The Exile of Capri; Special Friendships
Piazzetta
Picasso, Pablo
Piccoli, Michel
Pirandello, Luigi
pirates
Piscopo, Ugo
Pissarro, Camille
Platen, August von and n; in Capri
Plato; Lysis
Pleistocene era
Pliny the Elder
Plutarch
Poe, Edgar Allan, “The Masque of the Red Death”
Poesia
poetry. See also specific poets
Poiret, Paul
Poland
Polignac, Prince Edmond de
Polignac, Princess Edmonde de
Pompeii
population
postino, Il (film)
Pougy, Liane de
Pound, Ezra
Praetorian Guard
Prague
Prampolini, Enrico
Pre-Raphaelites
press; Fascist
Prokofiev, Sergei
Prospettive<
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prostitution
Protestantism
Proust, Marcel
Pulman, Jack
Punta Cannone
Punta di Massullo
Punta Tragara
Pushkin, Alexander
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
quail
Queensberry, Marquess of
Quisisana Hotel; Oscar Wilde and
Rachilde; Monsieur Venus
Radford, Michael
Rapazzani, Francesco
rape
Ravenna
Reinach, Salomon
religion
Renaissance
Rendle, John; The History of That Inimitable Monarch Tiberius
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Resting Hermes
Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, A (exhibition)
Rhodes
Richard the Lionheart
Rilke, Rainer Maria; in Capri; Maxim Gorky and; “Song of the Sea”
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rodin, Auguste
Romanticism
Rome and Romans; Senate; Tiberius
Rommel, Erwin
Ross, Robbie
Rostand, Edmond; L’aiglon; Cyrano de Bergerac
Royal Danish Ballet
Royal Watercolour Society
Rubinstein, Ida
Ruggiero, Domenico
Ruggiero, Mimí
Rupp, Yetta
Russia; literature; Revolution; Romanovs; Russians in Capri
Sade, Marquis de; in Capri; Juliette; Justine
St. Ives
Salomé, Lou Andreas
Salto di Tiberio
San Costanzo
San Costanzo, festival of
San Francisco
San Michele
Santo, Stefano
Sappho
Sargent, John Singer
Satanism
Savarese, Giuseppe
Savinio, Alberto
Scheffel, Joseph Viktor von
Schnitzler, Arthur
Scotland
Searle, Alan
Sebastian, Saint
Secker, Martin
Second World War
Sejanus; massacre of
sellarii and n
Semenov, Mikhail
Settanni, Ettore
sex. See homosexuality; lesbianism; orgies; pederasty; specific scandals
Shakespeare, William; Romeo and Juliet
Shanghai
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Sicily
Siege of Orléans
signals and codes
Simeoli, Don Vincenzo
Singapore
Sirens
Sirenuse
Skármeta, Antonio
slaves
Snow, Mrs.
Socrates
Sorrento
Soviet Union; music; poster art
Spadaro, Giovanni
Spain; Civil War
Spanish Steps
Spencer, Herbert
spintriae and n
Stalin, Joseph
Stampa, La
Stein, Gertrude
Stockholm
Stravinsky, Igor
Strozzi, Marchese Uberto
Suetonius; The Twelve Caesars
suicide
Sweden
Sylvia Scarlett (film)
symbol, Capri as
Szembek, Count Zygmunt
Tacitus and n; Annals; Germania
Taylor, Elizabeth
television
Temple of Vesta
Thaïs (film) and n
Tiberius; in Capri; cruelty and sexual perversions; death of; Orgy in Capri
Toklas, Alice B.
Tolstoy, Leo
topography
Toscanini, Arturo
tourism
Tozza, Albert
transgender roles
transportation
Tritons
Troisi, Massimo
Trojan War
Trotsky, Leon
Troubridge, Lady Una
Troy
Tunisia
Turner, Reginald
Twain, Mark; The Innocents Abroad
Tyrrhenian Sea
Ukraine
University of Michigan
Urrutia, Matilde; My Life with Pablo Neruda
usque ad inferos
Vallette, Alfred
vampires
van Dongen, Kees
Vanier, Léon
Vedder, Elihu
Velázquez, Diego
Venice and n
Verlaine, Paul
Vesuvius
Via Krupp
Victoria, Queen of England
Victorian era
Vienna
Vilard, Hervé, “Capri c’est fini”
Villa Allers
Villa Behring
Villa by the Sea
Villa Castello
Villa Cercola
Villa Discopoli
Villa Federico
Villa Hildebrand
Villa Jovis
Villa Lysis
Villa Narcissus
Villa Quattro Venti
Villa Torricella
Vipsania
Virgil
virginity
Vivien, Renée
Vogue
volcanism
Voltaire
Von Lhomond, Erick
Wagner, Richard
Warhol, Andy
Warsaw ghetto
Washington, D.C.
Washington, George
Waterman, Isaac
Welles, Orson
Wells, H. G.; A Modern Utopia
Whipple, James
Whistler, James McNeill; Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1; At the Piano
Wilde, Dolly
Wilde, Oscar; in Capri; homosexuality; The Picture of Dorian Gray; in prison; Quisisana incident; Salomé
Wilde, Willie
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
wine
Wolcott-Perry, Kate and Saidee
Wolton, Eric
Woolf, Virginia; The Voyage Out
Yourcenar, Marguerite; “Caprée”; in Capri; Coup de Grâce; Fires; Memoirs of Hadrian
Zagreb
Zurich
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Photograph by the author
Courtesy of Ignazio Cerio Museum
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Courtesy of Will Ogrinc
Photograph by the author
Photographs by the author
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Courtesy of Anita de Pascale
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Courtesy of Comune di Capri
Photographs by the author
Photographs by the author, with permission of Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Courtesy of George Wickes Collection, University of Oregon Libraries
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Morgano Hotels Capri
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ALSO BY JAMIE JAMES
NONFICTION
The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage
The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
Pop Art
The Music of the Spheres: M
usic, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe
FICTION
The Java Man
Andrew and Joey
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jamie James is the author of several books of nonfiction, including The Glamour of Strangeness, Rimbaud in Java, and The Snake Charmer. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic, among other publications, and he previously served as the American arts correspondent for The Times (London). The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant, he has lived in Indonesia since 1999. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Map
PAGAN LIGHT
Photos
Notes and Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Illustration Credits
Also By Jamie James
A Note About the Author
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1 Tacitus is vague in his use of sellarii and spintriae, implying that they were slang words. As you might expect, they have inspired many pages of prurient scholarly conjecture. Sellarius must be derived from sella, a place to sit, a reference to public toilets and the prostitutes who frequented them, while spintria refers to the sphincter, and thus means a person of either sex who is skilled at anal intercourse.
2 He began life as Jacques d’Adelswärd and appended “Fersen” at around the age of twenty-one. In Capri, he omitted “d’Adelswärd,” the name he was known by in France, and styled himself comte de Fersen. To simplify matters, I call him Fersen throughout.
3 Pederasts of the period often referred to the love object as an ephebe, in an attempt to burnish the pretension to a classical pedigree by suggesting a parallel with the love of Socrates for Alcibiades, that of Hadrian for Antinous, and so forth; yet it was a dishonest semantic ploy. In Attic Greek, an ephebos is a male who has reached the age for military service, usually eighteen. Both Alcibiades and Antinous had reached maturity by the time their famous older lovers courted them.
