On the Consolation of Philosophy, often titled as The Consolation of Philosophy or simply the Consolation, is a philosophical work by the Roman philosopher and Christian theologian Boethius. Written i
Page from a 15th century French manuscript
Lady Fortune with the Wheel of Fortune in a medieval manuscript of a work by Boccaccio
Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison from a 1385 Italian manuscript
A Confederacy of Dunces
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole. It was published in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy
On the Consolation of Philosophy
…Treebeard, and Elrond. Boethius and Consolatio Philosophiae are cited frequently by the main character Ignatius J. Reilly in the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces (1980). It is a prosimetrical text, meaning that it is written in alternating sections of prose and metered verse. In the course of the text, Boethius…
First edition cover (1980), illustration by Ed Lindlof
Rex Parade Float of Ignatius Reilly commemorating "The Confederacy of Dunces"
Canal Street, New Orleans in the late 1950s; the D. H. Holmes store at right
A "Lucky Dogs" cart from the era of the novel