Less familiar than this exaltation of the
antonomastic urbs is a persistent counter-discourse of anti-Romanism, of antipathy to Rome as both a place and an idea.
This meant trying to give these common nouns an
antonomastic meaning so as to create labels that served as proper nouns: the Holocaust, the Genocide, the Catastrophe, the Shoah.
Carletti's mercantile maraviglia is applied to the wealth he observed, particularly in Peru, a toponym that was already acquiring an
antonomastic connotation for the enormous profits that merchants were quickly making there (his ecstatic description of local merchants sleeping on stacks of silver ingots, 4748 ); and his astonishment at the exceptionally honest attitude of the merchants in Goa ("e cosa di maraviglia l'osservanza della realta et fedelta in tutte le loro attioni," 217).