Baretholobruised heels

• Bartholomew → Bartholomew Vanhomrigh → see homerigh, castle and earthenhouse above

• Bartholomaeus: according to St Jerome and Isidore of Seville, Bartholomaeus means “the son of him who stays the waters [of the Flood]” → the second part of the Prankquean episode is set in Vico's heroic age, which is postdiluvian

• bare
• Bartolo: character in two operas, Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia and Mozart's Nozze di Figaro

• tholos: (Greek) dome-shaped roof; vaulted building

• bruised heel: Genesis 3.14-15: "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel"

• bare, tho', lo!, bruised heels

• Oedipus: his name means swollen foot?