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Neither Ranke nor Gibbon invented the citational or literary footnote; Grafton slogs back through time in search of antecedents.
But Gibbon's source apparatus and sotto voce commentary in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remain more accessible and entertaining to ordinary readers.
3. Spitzer R, Williams J, Gibbon M, et al.
The situation stabilized with Vespasian, and the second century A.D. is often considered the golden age of the empire (Gibbon himself says that the time of Marcus Aurelius--late second century--was the best time to live of all in history).
Grafton's book begins by considering the historians Edward Gibbon and Leopold von Ranke, who in their own ways raised the historical footnote to a level of high art both as a citational resource and a rhetorical outlet.