notes that“the punctuation of the English and Latin originals has been
preserved, as contributing to the interest of the text.”The early texts, however,
sometimes render the Latin less intelligible, and when reproducing parts of it
here I have silently emended in accordance with Mustard’s editions for the
convenience of the reader. Barclay’s interpolation here deflects Piccolomini’s
original complaint that“Viros autem sapientes qui de moribus ac Naturis
secretis disputent, quique historias referant, non nisi per adulationes apud
principes accipies”[“But you will notfind wise men who can discuss manners
and the secrets of Nature, or tell histories, among princes except byflattery”]:
cf. Barclay,Second Eclogue, 291 – 96. If I refer to any passage as Barclay’s without
further qualification, the reader may take it that the passage is Barclay’s own
addition to his source.
16. For a brief but perceptive discussion of Barclay’s urban discourse, see Lawrence
Manley,Literature and Culture in Early Modern London(Cambridge, 1995 ), 79 – 80.
17. SeeAdulescentia, ed. Piepho, xxxiii, 107 , 108 notes to 28 – 30 and 60. The puns,
as Piepho notes, foreshadow the fate of the lustful shepherd Amyntas.
18. See Mantuan, Eclogueix, line 213 , and on Falcone Piepho’s detailed commen-
tary at xxivnote 52. Mustard draws the connection with Barclay atEclogues, 48 –
49 , though White ( 228 ) is skeptical.
19. Julie A. Smith,“An Image of a Preaching Bishop in Late Medieval England:
The 1498 Woodcut Portrait of Bishop John Alcock,”Viator 21 ( 1990 ), 301 – 22.
20. Stephen Guy-Bray,Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance
Literature(Toronto, 2002 ), 38.
21. White’s supposition that“‘Dreadfull Drome’may be a reference to James
Stanley, Bishop of Ely, 1506 – 1515 , or to his deputy”( 250 , note 3 to 126 ) seems
entirely plausible; see H. G. Newcombe’sDNBentry on Stanley.
22. Aeneae Silvii, ed. Mustard, 15 – 16. Fox,Politics and Literature, notes that
Barclay“deliberately obscures the careful structure of the original by introduc-
ing Coridon as an interlocutor”( 46 ).
23. For these lines, seeAeneae Silvii, ed. Mustard, 35 – 36.
24. R. Howard Bloch,Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic
Love(Chicago, 1991 ), 17 – 18.
25. Elias,History of Manners,i 53 ff. See, too, Fradenburg,“Manciple’s Servant
Tongue,” 89 – 90.
26. Not, as the tradition reproduced in White has it, thePro Marcello.
27. Cicero,“Pro Caelio,”The Speeches, trans. R. Gardner, Loeb Classical Library
(Cambridge, MA, 1958 ),xvii, 46 – 47.
28. Lacan,“The Mirror Stage as Formative of theIFunction as Revealed in
Psychoanalytic Experience,Ӄcints, 75 Р81 ( 78 ).
29. Fox,Politics and Literature, 53 – 55.
30. Barclay perhaps builds his self-construction here on the Lydgate who enters
Canterbury“In a cope of blak and not of grene, / On a palfrey slender, long
and lene”–a pale horseman who according to the Host is“al devoyde of
blood”( 73 – 74 , 89 ): John Lydgate,The Siege of Thebes, ed. Robert R. Edwards
(Kalamazoo, 2001 ).
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