From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1994| Author: Nash, Jerry C. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Max Gauna. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 322 pp. $45.

In three very long chapters, Max Gauna surveys the essentially Rationalist-Epicurean dissident tradition of unbelief in the literature and cultural-ideological history from antiquity to the early Renaissance, and then analyzes its "upwellings" or resurgent qualities in the Cymbalum Mundi, usually attributed to Bonaventure des Periers, and in Jacques Tahureau's Dialogues. The author is conce...