Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Friar’s Tale: Chaucer, Dante and the Translatios Studh
Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo

2. Cristoforo Landino: The Virgilian Commentator and Critic as a Hero
Mario Di Cesare, SUNY Binghamton

3. Virgil in Lorenzo Valla’s Dialogue On Pleasure
Maristella de Panizza Lorch, Barnard College, Columbia University

4. Marius and Carbo: A Ciceronian Allusion in Mantuan’s Aegologa Secunda
John B. Dillon, SUNY Binghmaton

5. The Virgilian Legacies of Petrarch’s Bucolicum Carmen and Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender
William J. Kennedy, Cornelle University

6.Allusions to the Classical Satire in Ariosto’s First and Third Satire
John Sarkissian, SUNY Albany

7. Virgil and Homer in the Early Tudor Period
David G. Hale, SUNY Brockport