L’Onos dello Pseudo-Luciano: storia di una censura nel corso dei secoli

Onos is a work handed down in the Corpus Lucianeum. It narrates the adventures experienced by Lucius, transformed into a donkey following a magical spell. Nine manuscripts of the tradition, named by H. Van Thiel «Recension N», bear an altered text: in them, all recentiores manuscripts, certain passages with an explicit erotic content are censored. This essay analyses the consequences of the censorial act on the printed editions of the work, from the editio princeps of 1496 to the editions of the modern era.