Homage
Hamilton's life was fictionalised by Susan Sontag in her novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance.
In the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm in Germany there is an island in a lake atop which is a model of Mount Vesuvius. The Duke would stage fireworks that seemed to issue from an erupting volcano to entertain his guests. At the foot of the mountain on the island is a building intended to suggest Hamilton's home "Villa Emma" in Naples (Posillipo). It is a highly unusual tribute to a great scholar.
Walton Ford's watercolor painting Jack on his Deathbed portrays the death of Hamilton's pet monkey in 1780.
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