... miscellanies, in which sophisticated indexes allowed readers to look up all the latest information on a specific god. In the middle of the sixteenth century, there then emerged a series of large-scale, Italian mythographies by Giraldi (1548), Cartari (1556), and Conti (1567). Each of these mythographies...

...This chapter explores the documents pertaining to Olympia Fulvia Morata by Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Caelius Secundus Curio, who personally heard her declaiming in Latin, speaking in Greek, expounding Cicero's Paradoxa, and responding to questions, so well that she seemed able...

... various sources. The poets include friends who knew Morata at Ferrara (Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Didacus Pyrrhus, Curio, and Johannes Sinapius) and at Heidelberg (the professor Jacob Micyllus and her student Jerôme Angenoust), along with others such as Petrus Cortonaeus, Gilbertus Cognatus, Theodor Zwinger...

... as Sannazaro’s and Sydney’s Arcadia poems. The nonclassical epics of Tasso (La Gerusalemme Liberata) and Ariosto (Orlando Furioso) adapted numerous myths and Greco-Roman motifs. The survey concludes with the important scholarly contributions of Giraldi, Cartari...

... and transforms the master-text according to the demands of an evolving literary canon. This chapter illustrates these effects in so far as they are directly relevant to anagnorisis. Illustrations are drawn in the main from a group of major Italian commentators and theorists, in particular Robortello, Giraldi...

... to questions of imitation and authorial intention. This chapter discusses the views of critics Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio and Giambattista Pigna. It then examines the extent to which the poems meet the criteria of Giraldi and Pigna, and how far their success in doing so derives from a conscious sense...