STILICHO, FLAVIUS — Marble equestrian statue base, discovered in 1880, with an inscription referring to the victory over Radagaisus (405): the name of S. was erased following the *damnatio memoriae* of 408 (cf. CIL, VI, 4 Addenda II, no. 31987) — Rome, Roman Forum.
And a sensational and symbolic tale: *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1886), based on a split personality and reflecting his tormented faith as a Puritan believer. The same religious unease is found in some of his Scottish novels, notably in *Weir of Hermiston*. Cecchi rightly pointed out among the sources of S.’s fantastic and symbolic narrative, along with Melville’s novels, Coleridge’s *The Ancient Mariner*, and, further back in time, Defoe’s *Robinson Crusoe*. When the memory of the heroic Catholic missionary Joseph Damien de Veuster, who died of leprosy at Molokai while caring for the plague-stricken, was attacked by a fanatical Calvinist, S. responded with a most noble open letter in defense of Fr. Damien—a letter that is a masterpiece of English apologetic literature, worthy of standing beside Newman’s *Apologia* and undoubtedly one of the most elevated and beautiful works of the writer (1890).