Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass - A Study in Transmission and Reception

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi CHAPTER 1 Apuleius: A Celebrity and His Image 1 CHAPTER 2 Exemplary Behavior: The Golden Ass from Late Antiquity to the Prehumanists 40 CHAPTER 3 A Mixed Reception: Interpreting and Illuminating the Golden Ass in the Fourteenth Century 76 CHAPTER 4 Making an Impression: From Florence to Rome and from Manuscript to Print 129 CHAPTER 5 Telling Tales: The Golden Ass in Ferrara and Mantua 173 CHAPTER 6 Apuleius Redux: Filippo Beroaldo Comments on the Golden Ass 197 CHAPTER 7 Speaking in Tongues: Translations of the Golden Ass 243 CONCLUSION The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass 296 APPENDIX 1 Ancient Readers of Apuleius (ca. 350 to ca. 550 AD) 300 APPENDIX 2 Manuscripts of Apuleius' Metamorphoses 302 APPENDIX 3 Extant Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses Written before 1400 309 APPENDIX 4 The Florentine Connection 311 APPENDIX 5 Adlington and His Sources for Met. 11.1 315 Bibliography 319 Index of Manuscripts 355 General Index 357