En Bedeilhac, particularmente, la frontera entre el lusus naturae y las creaciones magdalenienses es tenue.

Furlan suggests that apart from the author's literary works, Alberti's oeuvre could be divided into three genres: the treatise, the dialogue, and lusus. The treatises seek a 'certa ratio' which cuts through man's subjectivity; the dialogue is less sure of the truth, and his 'ragionare domestico e familiare' is the opposite of the scholastic method;while his lusus (most importantly the Intercenales and Momus, but also Canis and Musca) constitute the richest deployment of Lucian's legacy in the Renaissance.

Altogether nineteen authors of Lusus Palatini express anti-Popish sentiment, amongst them such important theologians as William Goodwin, John Prideaux and Robert Abbot.

The enchanted head episode is an example of what Paula Findlen has called the lusus scientiae, or joke of knowledge, frequently described in scientific texts of the period and exhibited publicly in museums (292).

He distinguishes between the professional comedian and the lusus naturae-the natural or `innocent' fool who took his or her place among the other curiosities of the court (a feature particularly of Renaissance courts where dwarfs and giants were sometimes employed as guides to the cabinets of curiosities collected by princes).

Gulliver as Grildrig exemplifies infantilization and impotency; contained in cabinets and pockets much as the cinematic frames or Devil's eye contain and determine Coover's Charlie and Lynch's Peter/Fred, he is reduced to curiosity, a Lusus Naturae--as helpless and freakish as the fetal issues of Swift's lady friends described in the Dean's journals with loathing.

Freaks then were not regarded as sick but as lusus naturae- jokes of nature, or nature playing -until the medical establishment became interested in their plight, doctors began to write papers about them and campaigned to have them institutionalized.

El libro se estructura, siguiendo el esquema de la coleccion EAOR, en seis capitulos: administracion (leyes y personal de las escuelas gladiatorias), ediciones (munera y lusus iuvenum), profesionales (gladiadores, arbitros y entrenadores), edificios (obras, loca y aras a Nemesis y a otras divinidades del anfiteatro), tablas recopilatorias y conclusiones (que finalizan con un repertorio de los posibles anfiteatros de la Peninsula Iberica).

Using Hill as a test case, Rousseau explores what it meant for a human to be a lusus naturae in an effort to chart the shifting nature of curiosity and subjectivity in the Enlightenment.