Abstract
Gryllus, makes its author another defender of the miseria hominis, not only after the trail of Lucian of Samosata, the main source of the entire work, but of Plinius and other authors that bring to modern Humanism a new lecture of the topic. The praise of the beasts faced with the man, with its anthropologycal and metaphysical implications, provokes serious questions to orthodox thought, bearing out the contribution of the radical lucianism to the european controversy.
