by Laurie Sheck
“Sleep in Venice,” Millard Meiss, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 110, No. 5, 1966, www.jstor.org/stable/986024.
Venice: Past and Present, Thomas Osmond Summer, Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, TN, 1860.
“A Venetian Plague Miracle,” William M. Schupbach, Medical History, Vol. 20, No. 3, July 1976.
Secret Venice, Thomas Jonglez and Paola Zoffoli, Editions Jonglez, Versailles, France, 2010.
Blue Guide: Venice, Alta Macadam, A&C Black, London, 1986.
Venice on Foot, Hugh A. Douglas, Charles Scribners, New York, 1907.
Cultures of Plague, Samuel K. Cohen Jr., Oxford University Press, England, 2009.
The Body: Public Health and Social Control in Sixteenth-Century Venice, Michelle Anne Laughran, Dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1998.
City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500, Alexander Cowan, Editor, Ashgate Publishing, Abingdon, England, 2007.
Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence, Ann G. Carmichael, Cambridge University Press, England, 1986.
The Great Pox, Jon Arizzabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1997.
Plagues and Peoples, William H. McNeill, Doubleday, New York, 1977.
A World by Itself, Shirley Guiton, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977.
Hope and Healing, Gauvin Bailey, Editor, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
PART 2
In the sleepless woman’s sections, some phrases and sentences have been adapted from Dostoevsky’s letters and other writings. She and Ambrose quote briefly from the Constance Garnett translation of The Idiot and The Possessed. Many details of the sleepless woman’s illness as she mentions them come from D.T. Max’s The Family That Couldn’t Sleep.
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, revised by Elina Yuffa, Barnes and Noble Classics, New York, 2004.
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Barnes and Noble Classics, New York, 2004.
The Possessed, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Barnes and Noble Classics, New York, 2005.
Dostoevsky Letters, Vols. I–V, David Lowe, Editor and translator, Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989–1991.
Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Frank and David I. Goldstein, Editors, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1987.
Dostoevsky, Vols. I–V, Joseph Frank, Princeton University Press, NJ, 1995.
The Notebooks for The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edward Wasiock (ed.), University of Chicago Press, 1967.
The Unpublished Dostoevsky, Diaries and Notebooks, Vols. II and III, Carl Proffer, Editor, Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975, 1976.
Dostoevsky Reminiscences, Anna Dostoevsky, translated by Beatrice Stillman, Live-right, New York, 1977.
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Mikhail Bakhtin, Caryl Emerson, Editor and translator, University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Dostoevsky, Andre Gide, New Directions, New York, 1961.
Dostoevsky Archive: First Hand Accounts of the Novelist, Peter Sekirin, Editor, McFarland and Co., Jefferson, NC, 1997.
Dostoevsky’s The Idiot: A Critical Companion, Liza Knapp, Editor, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 1998.
Dostoevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrator, and Reader, Robin Fever Miller, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981.
The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson and Kafka, Sharon Cameron, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2017.
The Art of Dostoevsky’s Falling Sickness, Brian R. Johnson, PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008.
The Falling Sickness, Owsei Temkin, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1945, 1971.
Epilepsy and Its Treatment, William P. Spratling, W.B. Saunders and Co., Philadelphia, 1904.
Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases, W.R. Gowers, J. & A. Churchill, London, 1881.
Epilepsy: A Study of Idiopathic Disease, William Aldren Turner, Macmillan, New York, 1907.
The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, D.T. Max, Random House, New York, 2006.
“Fatal Familial Insomnia: A Seventh Family,” P. Silburn and L. Cervenakova, Neurology, Vol. 47, No. 5, November 1996.
“Fatal Familial Insomnia: Clinical, Neuropathological, and Genetic Description of a Spanish Family,” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Vol. 68, No. 6, February 2000.
Museo del manicomio di San Servolo la follia reclusa, Mario Galzigna, Curator, Foundation of San Servolo, Venice, Italy, 2007.
Il Recupero Di San Servolo, Claudio Carlon, Libreria Edirice, Province of Venice, Italy, 2004.
Epilepsy: The Facts, Anthony Hopkins and Richard Appleton, Oxford University Press, England, 1996.
Epilepsy in Our Own Words, Steven C. Schachter, MD, Oxford University Press, England, 2008.
St. Petersburg, Michelin Travel Publications, Greenville, SC, 1999.
In Search of the Multiverse, John Gribbin, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.
A Disease Once Sacred: A History of the Medical Understanding of Epilepsy, M.J. Eadie, John Libbey and Co., Eastleigh, England, 2001.
The Asylum Journal of Mental Science, Volume 4, John Charles Bucknill, Editor, Longman, Brown, London, 1858.
On Epilepsy, M.G. Echeverria, William Wood and Co., New York, 1870.
Una visita al nuovo manicomio criminale, Raffaele Nulli, Nabu Press reprint (1887), 2010.
Ecstatic Epileptic Seizures: A Glimpse into the Multiple Roles of the Insula, Markus Gschwind and Fabienne Picard, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, online Feb. 17, 2016.
Dostoevskii’s Creative Misreading of Holbein, S. Kupper, Paper presented at the 2nd meeting of the Study Group for Religion in Russia, Gregnog, Wales, 2003.
Epilepsy and Literary Creativeness: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Franc Fari, Friulian Journal of Science, Vol. 3, 2003.
Lettres medicales sur l’Italie, Joseph Guislan, Gand, Rue des Piegnes, France, 1840.
L’Antica Farmacia Dell’Ospedale Di San Servolo a Venezia, Ernesto Riva, www.fondazionesanservolo.it.
“The Mental Asylum of San Servolo, Venice (1860–1978),” Mario Galzigna, History of Psychiatry, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2009..
The San Servolo Foundation, www.fondazionesanservolo.it.
The Province of San Servolo, www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it.
“Neuroscience Resources,” www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu.
“Neurophysiology and Neurochemistry of Sleep,” Sergey Skudaev, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Vol. 64, No. 10, 2007.
PART 3
“Personality and Stereotype in Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Behavioral Phenotype or Response to Life’s Hard Challenges?”, Joan Ablon, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, Vol. 122A, No. 3, 2003.
Fragile Bones, Unbreakable Spirit? Abstracts from 1st international meeting of OIFE and APOI, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012.
Neurobiology and Segmental Neurology of Sleep, Antonio Culebras, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999.
“Sympathy for Pontius Pilate,” V. Zayas, F. Maggioni, and G. Zanchin, Cephalalgia, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2007.
“Physiology and Neurochemistry of Sleep,” Martha S. Rosenthal, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Vol. 62, Summer 1998.
