Humanist revival of Comus

An Untruthful Renaissance?

The Humanist Revival of Comus and Its Reception in

English Literature and Popular Culture

Lorenzo Costa, The Reign of Comus (1511)

Blaise de Vigenère, Les Images ou Tableaux de Platte-Peinture, 1637

Illustrations by Jaspar Isa(a)c

Vincenzo Cartari, Imagines deorum, 1581

Illustrations by Bolognino Zaltieri

Vincenzo Cartari, Le vere e nove Imagini dei Dei degli antichi, 1626

Illustrations by Filippo Ferroverde

Master E.S., Fantastic Alphabet, c. 1465

An Inuectiue ageinst Glotony and Dronkennes

(London, 1545)

The Great Sins of Drunkeness and Gluttony

(London, 1656)

Erycius Puteanus,

Comus sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria,

Oxford edition, 1634

John Milton, Comus, Trinity manuscript

John Milton, Comus, first printed edition, London, 1637

Comus, Mardi Gras, 2002

Margaret Hodges, Comus, 1996

Illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman