Popular Culture References
- In Joseph Heller's book Something Happened, Bob Slocum remarks, "The Fuggers were all right as long as they stayed in Germany; then they sent their mothers here."
- The Fugger family is referenced frequently in Robertson Davies' What's Bred in the Bone (the second volume in "The Cornish Trilogy").
- The Fuggers are mentioned in Mika Waltari's book Mikael Ludenfot. A prominent feature is the Fugger copper monopoly.
- The Fuggers are mentioned in Charles Reade's novel The Cloister and the Hearth, which is partly set in 15th-century Augsburg.
- The Fuggers play a large role in the 1999 novel Q by Luther Blissett
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