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Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts)
David Marsh
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Hardcover. Explores Lucian's influence on Renaissance writers Series: Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts S. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 to connect the Latin translators and imitators of Lucian with his wider European influence. In Lucian and the Latins, David Marsh describes how Renaissance authors rediscovered the comic writings of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts S.
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472108466
SKU
V9780472108466
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99-15
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