Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- 16 Lucian of Samosata in Renaissance Italy
- 17 Lucian Goes North: The Luciani Opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More
- 18 From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Voltaire, Leopardi, and a New Avenue of Philosophical Critique
- References
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
17 - Lucian Goes North: The Luciani Opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- 16 Lucian of Samosata in Renaissance Italy
- 17 Lucian Goes North: The Luciani Opuscula of Erasmus and Thomas More
- 18 From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Voltaire, Leopardi, and a New Avenue of Philosophical Critique
- References
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
Summary
This chapter traces the publication history and animating ideas of Luciani Opuscula, a set of translations of Lucian begun as a collaboration between Thomas More and Desiderius Erasmus. I examine the volume’s contents, which grew over time as Erasmus kept adding to them, and the letters with which both translators prefaced their own selections, explaining to fellow humanists how the works are to be read. These interpretive letters tell us much about how the two great northern humanists understood Lucian and what role he played in their own evolution as the foremost ‘Lucianists’ of their age.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Lucian , pp. 360 - 383Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024