Published, July, 1902
Reprinted, October, 1902; February, 1903; July, 1904
St. Petersbourg, 3, ix, 1901.
À Monsieur Herbert Trench j'accorde l'autorisation exclusive de traduire du Russe en Anglais mon livre La Résurrection des Dieux.
Dmitri Mérejkowski.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| BOOK I | |
| THE WHITE SHE-DEVIL—1494 | [3] |
| BOOK II | |
| ECCE DEUS—ECCE HOMO—1494 | [36] |
| BOOK III | |
| THE POISONED FRUITS—1494 | [57] |
| BOOK IV | |
| THE WITCHES' SABBATH—1494 | [82] |
| BOOK V | |
| THY WILL BE DONE—1494 | [104] |
| BOOK VI | |
| THE DIARY OF GIOVANNI BOLTRAFFIO—1494-1495 | [129] |
| BOOK VII | |
| THE BONFIRE OF VANITIES—1496 | [151] |
| BOOK VIII | |
| THE AGE OF GOLD—1496-1497 | [172] |
| BOOK IX | |
| THE SIMILITUDES—1498-1499 | [210] |
| BOOK X | |
| CALM WATERS—1499-1500 | [260] |
| BOOK XI | |
| THERE SHALL BE WINGS—1500 | [300] |
| BOOK XII | |
| 'AUT CÆSAR AUT NIHIL'—1500-1503 | [320] |
| BOOK XIII | |
| THE PURPLE BEAST—1503 | [361] |
| BOOK XIV | |
| MONNA LISA GIOCONDA—1503-1506 | [385] |
| BOOK XV | |
| THE HOLY INQUISITION—1506-1513 | [411] |
| BOOK XVI | |
| LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO, AND RAPHAEL—1513-1515 | [425] |
| BOOK XVII | |
| DEATH—THE WINGED PRECURSOR—1516-1519 | [437] |
| EPILOGUE | [459] |
LEONARDO DA VINCI
'Sentio rediit ab inferis Julianus.'
(I feel that Julian has risen again.)—Petrarch.'We see the encounter of vast contraries: Man-god against God-man—Apollo Belvedere against Christ.'—Dostoievsky.