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The Fortunes of Apuleius and the "Golden Ass": A Study in Transmission and Reception Book

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the "Golden Ass": A Study in Transmission and Reception
The Fortunes of Apuleius and the &quot;Golden Ass&quot;: A Study in Transmission and Reception, This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The <i>Golden Ass</i>, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy ad, The Fortunes of Apuleius and the "Golden Ass": A Study in Transmission and Reception has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • The Fortunes of Apuleius and the "Golden Ass": A Study in Transmission and Reception
  • Written by author Julia Haig Gaisser
  • Published by Princeton University Press, January 2008
  • This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy ad
  • "Donkeys get little enough respect, and to have been made the subject of a comic novel has done little for their reputation or for that of the author, Apuleius. Julia Haig Gaisser follows Apuleius and his donkey through a journey of many centuries--a jour
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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


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