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In one place he shows how the rhetorical shape of a passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , with its paired images and a ribbing of parallel verbs, finds a visual counterpoint in works of landscape design and even dance notation.
Neither Ranke nor Gibbon invented the citational or literary footnote; Grafton slogs back through time in search of antecedents.
Only in the annotation does Gibbon add, "The world has laughed at the credulity of Marcus; but Madam Dacier assures us (and we may credit a lady) that the husband will always be deceived, if the wife condescends to dissemble."
Gibbon straightforwardly observes at one point, for instance, that the emperor Marcus Aurelius thanked the gods in his Meditations for giving him a wife "so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners."
3. Spitzer R, Williams J, Gibbon M, et al.