Katie Reid, Ph.D. (2017), Warburg Institute, has taught at the University of Warwick and the Warburg Institute. She has a forthcoming scholarly edition of Hypnerotomachia, The Strife of Love in a Dreame with MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations and several forthcoming articles on mythography. She is currently an independent scholar, and this is her first book.

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Martianus Capella and His Early Reception1 Introduction2 De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii3 The Earlier Reception of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii4 The Question of the Later Reception2 The Trecento Martianus: Harmonising Poetry and Learning1 Dante and the Legacy of Late Antiquity2 Myth and Dialectic in the Underworld3 Cosmic Education4 The Pageant of Philology: Petrarch and Boccaccio3 The Middle English Martianus: Uneasy Myths and Marriages1 Chaucer’s House of Fame and the Co(s)mic Ascent2 Mirthful and Mythical Marriages: The Merchant’s Tale3 Lydgate’s Martianus4 The Quattrocento Martianus: The Aesthetics of Knowledge1 Humanists and Patrons, Erudition and Iconography2 Alberti’s Allegories3 Exploring the Esoteric: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili5 Early Northern Humanism: Philosophical and Practical Allegories1 De nuptiis in Early Print (1499–1510)2 Philosophical Commentary: Johannes Dubravius3 Pedagogical Personifications: Richard Pace4 Professional Allegories: Geoffroy Tory6 Martianus in the Cinquecento and Beyond: Vernacular Myth, Image and Performance1 Collecting the Gods: Martianus in Mythography2 Translations: Mercury and Philology in Italian3 Myth in Performance: Intermedi7 Late Northern Humanism: The Triumph of Philology1 Later Sixteenth-Century Editions and Commentary2 The Cornucopia of Scholarship: Justus Lipsius and Gerardus Vossius3 Martianus in Early Modern EnglandConclusionBibliographyIndex