The Praise of Folly began as an elaborate joke, to be shared with a close friend. According
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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 …

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religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary …

Philosophy, throughout its history, has been expressed by means of a manifold of divergent
literary forms which include almost all of the major literary genres found in the history of …

Originally published in 1992, this remarkable book challenges many of the assumptions
governing the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Culture by arguing that Western …

Fray Antonio de Guevara (1482-1545), the most prolific writer of pseudo-historical prose in
sixteenth-century Spain, was named official chronicler by Emperor Charles V in 1526 …

Abstract Renaissance (literally “rebirth”) was a term introduced by the painter and architect
Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters and Sculptors …

This dissertation studies the office of the clerk of the Privy Council, including discussions of
the office itself, and the nineteen men who held that office between its creation, in 1540, and …

MENIPPUS AND HIS IMITATORS: A CONSPECTUS, UP TO STERNE, FOR A
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BIBLIOGRAPHY.................................................. 250 Reproduced with permission of the …