From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 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

The use made of the manuscripts of the Satyricon by French humanist scholars represents one of the most vexing problems in Petronian scholarship. In his trenchant article on the textual transmission (in Texts and Transmission, ed. L.D. Reynolds [Oxford, 1983], 295-300), Reeve underlined the contribution of sixteenth-century scholarship for our understanding of manuscript affiliations and suggested that further study of the manuscripts available to such scholars as Jacques Cujas, Jean de Tournes and Marc Antoine Muret was a desideratum. Wade Richardson's monograph serves to fill this ...