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Introduction Introduction
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Cereta, Seneca, and Lucretius Cereta, Seneca, and Lucretius
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Lucretian religio and Stoic Consolation: Letter to Francesco Fontana, April 13, 1487 Lucretian religio and Stoic Consolation: Letter to Francesco Fontana, April 13, 1487
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A Defense of Epicurus: Letter to Deodata di Leno, December 12, 1487 A Defense of Epicurus: Letter to Deodata di Leno, December 12, 1487
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33 Transmitting Roman Philosophy: The Renaissance
Get accessQuinn Griffin received her PhD in 2016 from The Ohio State University with a dissertation on classical exempla and learned women in the Renaissance. From 2016 to 2021 she served as an Assistant Professor of Classics at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she continued her research on Renaissance and early modern women with an article on the reception of classical authors in Laura Cereta’s “Oration on the Funeral of a Donkey.” She explored the reception of funeral orations and adoxography in the Renaissance in a chapter titled, “The Owl and the Pussycat: Following the Trail of a Neo-Latin Mock Funeral Oration.” She is currently an e-learning developer in Columbus, Ohio, and continues to engage with her research in the context of fiction writing.
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Published:22 March 2023
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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Christianity in the letters of humanist Laura Cereta (1469–1499). Refusing to limit herself to a single philosophical school in her attempts to define how to live a “good life,” Cereta draws on the works of Seneca, and through him, the sayings of Epicurus. Cereta draws on Stoicism in particular as she considers how to face human mortality. Her discussion of Epicureanism constitutes a defense of the school from charges of hedonism, and draws on the work of contemporaries such as Lorenzo Valla in exploring the concept of voluptas. Ultimately, Cereta defines a path toward happiness that combines elements of both schools, and that is still compatible with Christianity.
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