Knocking on Charon’s Door. Andrea Dazzi’s Epigram for Julius II, and the Iulius exclusus

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Knocking on Charon’s Door. Andrea Dazzi’s Epigram for Julius II, and the Iulius exclususA Greek epigram by Andrea Dazzi on the death of Pope Julius II looks like a satire in the fashion of Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Greek Anthology: the wording of this text brings to mind not only Pontano’s Charon and, more specifically, some popular polemical texts against Julius, but also Erasmus of Rotterdam’s dialogue Iulius exclusus e coelis, with which it shares some startling similarities.