Lucian and the Latins : Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance

COVER
Preface
Contents
Timeline of Works Discussed
CHAPTER 1: Lucian in the Quattrocento
	Imitation and Influence
	The Renaissance Diffusion of Lucian
	Latin Translations of Lucian to 1450
		The Anonymous Version of Charon
		Bertholdus's Translation of Timon
		Guarino of Verona
		Giovanni Aurispa
	Demand and Distortion in the Renaissance
		Lapo da Castigliochio
		Rinuccio da Castiglione
		Poggio Bracciolini
		Lilius Tifernas
CHAPTER 2: The Dialogue of the Dead
	The Descent to the Underworld
		Lucian, Menippus
		Lucian, The Downward Journey
		Alberti, The Deceased
		Alberti, The Cynic
		Maffeo Vegio, Palinurus
		Rabelais, Pantagruel 30
CHAPTER 3: The Dialogue of the Gods 1: The Scene in Heaven
	Divine Perspectives: Myth to Morality
	Lucian, Icaromenippus
	Alberti, Virtue
	Alberti, The Clouds
	Alberti, The Dream
	Ariosto, Orlando Furioso 34
	Rabelais, Pantagruel 1 and Fourth Book, Prologue
CHAPTER 4: The Dialogue of the Gods 2: The Scene on Earth
	Lucian, Charon
	Maffeo Vegio, Philalethes
	Alberti, Momus
	Pontano, Charon
	Pandolfo Collenuccio, Agenoria
	Erasmus, Charon
CHAPTER 5: The Paradoxical Encomium
	Lucian, The Fly
	Lucian, The Parasite
	Alberti and Encomium
	Alberti, My Dog
	Alberti, The Fly
	Alberti, Momus 2: Praise of the Vagabound
	Maffeo Vegio, Debate between Earth, Sun, and Gold
	Erasmus, Praise of Folly
	Rabelais, Third Book 3-4: The Praise of Debt
CHAPTER 6: The Fantastic Voyage
	Lucian, True Story
		The Ironic Narrator
		The Voyage of Discovery
	Thomas More, Utopia
	Rabelais, Fourth and Fifth Books
	Epilogue: Further Flights of the Imagination
Bibliography
	Manuscripts
	Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index