Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass
6. Chapter 1 Apuleius: A Celebrity and His Image 1
7. Chapter 2 Exemplary Behavior: The Golden Ass from Late Antiquity to the Prehumanists 40
8. Chapter 3 A Mixed Reception: Interpreting and Illuminating the Golden Ass in the Fourteenth Century 76
9. Chapter 4 Making an Impression: From Florence to Rome and from Manuscript to Print 129
10. Chapter 5 Telling Tales: The Golden Ass in Ferrara and Mantua 173
11. Chapter 6 Apuleius Redux: Filippo Beroaldo Comments on the Golden Ass 197
12. Chapter 7 Speaking in Tongues: Translations of the Golden Ass 243
13. Conclusion The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass 296
14. Appendix 1 Ancient Readers of Apuleius (ca. 350 to ca. 550 AD) 300
15. Appendix 2 Manuscripts of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 302
16. Appendix 3 Extant Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses Written before 1400 309
17. Appendix 4 The Florentine Connection 311
18. Appendix 5 Adlington and His Sources for Met. 11.1 315
19. Bibliography 319
20. Index of Manuscripts 355
21. General Index 357