Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One Tum Brutus castigator lacrimarum The Cruelty of Brustus and the Politics of Philolgy Chapter Two Per hunc castissimum sanguinem LucretiaOs Chastity and the Alienation from Literary Material Chapter Three In secretis penetralibus Mercantile Writing and the Construct of Privacy Afterword Modern Humanism and the Relation of Writing Appendix Facsimile, Transcription, and Translation of SalutatiOs Declamatio Lucretiae Works Cited Index