1. For a summary, see H.H. Scullard, Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981), pp. 213–18. The most recent major study is Ernst Künzl, Der römische Triumph (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1988).
2. ‘Of Masques and Triumphs’, in Francis Bacon, Essayes, ed. Michael Kieran (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), p. 118.
3. William V. Harris, War and Imperialism in Republican Rome, 327–70 B.C. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), pp. 9–53.
4. Roy Strong, Splendour at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and Illusion (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973), pp. 79–119;
5. Marie Tanner, The Last Descendant of Aeneas: the Hapsburgs and the Mythic Image of the Emperor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), pp. 131–9;