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Downloaded from the Humanities Digital Library http://www.humanities-digital-library.org Open Access books made available by the School of Advanced Study, University of London ***** Publication details: The Afterlife of Apuleius Edited by F. Bistagne, C. Boidin, and R. Mouren https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/afterlife-apuleius DOI: 10.14296/121.9781905670956 ***** This edition published in 2021 by UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-905670-95-6 (PDF edition) This work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. More information regarding CC licenses is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses THE AFTERLIFE OF APULEIUS EDITED BY F. BISTAGNE, C. BOIDIN, & R. MOUREN INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON THE AFTERLIFE OF APULEIUS BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES SUPPLEMENT 140 DIRECTOR & EDITOR: GREG WOOLF THE AFTERLIFE OF APULEIUS EDITED BY FLORENCE BISTAGNE, CAROLE BOIDIN, AND RAPHAËLE MOUREN INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS 2021 The cover image shows an initial letter from a manuscript in the Vatican Library: Vat. Lat. 2194, p. 65 v. Used with permission. ISBN 978-1-905670-88-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-905670-95-6 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-905670-96-3 (epub) © 2021 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. The right of the contributors to be identified as the authors of the work published here has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. Designed and typeset at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. CONTENTS Notes on Contributors vii F. Bistagne, C. Boidin, and R. Mouren Preface and acknowledgements xi Apuleius’ travels: historical and geographical diffusion Robert H. F. Carver The medieval Ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages 1 Andrew Laird The White Goddess in Mexico: Apuleius, Isis, and the Virgin of Guadalupe in Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl sources 27 Carole Boidin The Ass goes east: Apuleius and orientalism 47 The afterlife of Psyche Julia Haig Gaisser How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto 55 Igor Candido Psyche’s textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch 65 Stephen Harrison An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood’s Love’s Mistress (1634) 79 Regine May Echoes of Apuleius’ novel in Mary Tighe’s Psyche: Romantic imagination and self-fashioning 91 A fashionable model? Formal patterns and literary values Ahuvia Kahane Apuleius and Martianus Capella: reception, pedagogy, and the dialectics of canon 109 Françoise Lavocat A translation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the debate about fiction in the sixteenth century:L’asino d’oro by Agnolo Firenzuola (1550) 125 Loreto Núñez Apuleius’ Ass and Cervantes’ Dogs in dialogue 135 A braying style: lexicographic approaches Clementina Marsico ‘He does not speak golden words: he brays.’ Apuleius’ style and the humanistic lexicography 153 v vi THE AFTERLIFE OF APULEIUS Andrea Severi The Golden Ass under the lens of the ‘Bolognese Commentator’: Lucius Apuleius and Filippo Beroaldo 165 Index 179 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Florence Bistagne is Maître de conférences-HDR in Italian and Latin Language and Literature at Université d’Avignon, and member of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research combines a philological approach to Renaissance Latin and Italian texts with a socio-cultural study of European linguistic practices, from vernacular prose and verse to Latin treatises and diplomatic documents, with a special interest in national constructions involving linguistic references to antiquity. She has published multiple editions and translations of ancient and early Modern literary works, including Giovanni Pontano’s De Sermone and several papers on the classical tradition and history of translation in the Kingdom of Naples. Carole Boidin is Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) in Comparative Literature at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research focuses on comparing narrative and poetical practices from the Greek, Latin, and Arabic traditions. She has published several papers on Apuleius’Golden Ass and The Arabian Nights, as well as on their reception through time, especially in terms of ideological appropriations. She also has a keen interest in early modern knowledge and representation of Arabic poetics and North-African identities. Igor Candido is Assistant Professor of Italian at Trinity College Dublin. In 2013-14 he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin. He has lectured and taught in Italy, the US, Germany, and Ireland, and has written on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Poliziano, Emerson, and Longfellow. He has provided the critical edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s translation of Dante’s Vita nuova (Aragno 2012) and a monograph on Boccaccio as reader and imitator of Apuleius of Madauros (Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio, Longo, 2014). He has edited a volume entitled Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World (De Gruyter 2018) and is currently working on a new commented edition of Petrarch’s De vita solitaria (Toronto UP). He is one of the editors of Lettere italiane, Griseldaonline, Archivio Novellistico Italiano; and he collaborates with Italian and American journals (L’Indice dei libri del mese and MLN). Robert H. F. Carver is an Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. His publications include The Protean Ass: The ‘Metamorphoses’ of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Oxford 2007); articles on Sir Philip Sidney and the reception of Heliodorus and Pierio Valeriano; the chapter on ‘English Fiction and the Ancient Novel’ in the first volume of theOxford History of the Novel in English, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford 2017); and translations from the Latin writings of a twelfth-century mystic, Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology (London 1990). He is currently investigating the relationship between ancient prose fiction and the so-called ‘rise of the novel’. Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College. She is principally interested in Latin poetry, Renaissance humanism, and the reception and transmission of classical texts. She is the author of the article on Catullus vii viii THE AFTERLIFE OF APULEIUS in Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum 7 (1992). Her books include Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass (2008), and Catullus (2009); she is also the editor and translator of Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men (1999), Giovanni Pontano’s Dialogues: Charon and Antonius (2012), and Giovanni Pontano’s Dialogues:Actius, Aegidius, and Asinus (forthcoming). Stephen Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford. He is author of Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (Oxford 2000) and of Framing the Ass: Literary Form in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Oxford 2013), has worked in the Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius group for the volumes on Cupid and Psyche (2004) and the Isis book (2015), and is currently working with Regine May on a monograph on the reception of the Cupid and Psyche story in Western Europe since 1650 (a co-edited conference book on the same topic will appear in 2020 with De Gruyter). Ahuvia Kahane is Regius Professor of Greek and A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Trinity College Dublin. He previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Centre; at Northwestern University; and in Oxford. He is interested in evolutionary genealogies of consciousness, values and historical traditions, in questions of time, stochastic movement and emergence in discourse and in the ethics of form, and is completing books on orality and complexity in archaic verse (de Gruyter) and on epic, the ancient novel and perceptions of the temporal progress of antiquity (Bloomsbury). Andrew Laird is John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities at Brown University, Rhode Island. Previously he was Professor of Classical Literature at Warwick University in the United Kingdom, where he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2008–11. Much of his research has been devoted to classical literature, but he has also published extensively on Latin humanism in Renaissance Europe, as well as in colonial Spanish America and Brazil. His self-authored and collaborative publications include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power (1999), Ancient Literary Criticism (2006), The Epic of America (2006), Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought, and Poetry 1300–1600 (2009), The Role of Latin in the Early Modern World: Linguistic Identity and Nationalism 1350–1800 (2012), Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America (2018), and A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (2001), co- edited with Ahuvia Kahane. Françoise

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