SOURCES FOR VOLPONE

Aesop. Fables.

Contarini, Gasparo. De Magistratibus et Republica Venetorum. Trans. Samuel Lewkenor (1599).

(perhaps) Donne, John. The First Anniversary (1612). 'The Progress of the Soul.'

(perhaps) Gesner, Conrad. Historia Animalium (1603).

Horace. Sermones [i.e. Satires]. 2.5.

(perhaps) Juvenal. Saturae. 6.

Laertius, Diogenes De Philosophorum Vitis.

Libianus.Declamations.

Libianus. De Muliere Loquaci. Trans. Marellus (1597).

Lucian. Dialogues of the Dead. 15-19.

Lucian. The Dream, or, Lucian's Career.

Petronius. Satyricon. 116-40.

Reynard the Fox, The History of. Trans. William Caxton (1481).

REFERENCE : R.B. Parker, ed. Volpone. The Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. 11-29.