1. An Untruthful
Renaissance?
The Humanist Revival of Comus
and Its Reception in English
Literature and Popular Culture

2. Lorenzo Costa, The Reign of Comus (1511)

3. Blaise de Vigenère, Les Images ou Tableaux de Platte-
Peinture, 1637
Illustrations by Jaspar Isa(a)c

4. Vincenzo Cartari, Imagines deorum, 1581
Illustrations by Bolognino Zaltieri

5. Vincenzo Cartari, Le vere e
nove Imagini dei Dei degli
antichi, 1626
Illustrations by Filippo
Ferroverde

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

7. An Inuectiue ageinst Glotony and Dronkennes
(London, 1545)

8. The Great Sins of Drunkeness and Gluttony
(London, 1656)

9. Erycius Puteanus,
Comus sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria,
Oxford edition, 1634

10. John Milton, Comus, Trinity manuscript
John Milton, Comus, first printed edition, London, 1637

11. Comus, Mardi Gras, 2002

12. Margaret Hodges,
Comus, 1996
Illustrations by
Trina Schart Hyman