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

by David Marsh

The works of the second-century Greek satirist Lucian enjoyed a tremendous vogue in the early Renaissance. His Greek prose furnished one of the first texts in the Florentine classroom around 1400, and it aroused as much interest as Plato. At first praised as an eloquent rhetorician, Lucian was soon appreciated for his irreverent wit, which inspired new satirical and paradoxical currents in Renaissance literature. Until now, no study has attempted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108468
• ISBN13: 9780472108466
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"