This story titles a 2002 novel by Iain Pears that spans Late Antiquity, the Avignon papacy, and World War II. For 10 points each:
[10h] In Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules, the narrator falls asleep while reading this story. Thanks to a Neoplatonic commentary by Macrobius, this story is the only surviving excerpt from the sixth book of a larger work.
ANSWER: Dream of Scipio [or Somnium Scipionis; accept descriptions of Scipio Aemilianus’s dream of Scipio Africanus; reject “Scipio Africanus’s dream” or equivalents]
[10e] In the unfinished epic Africa, this poet altered the Dream of Scipio by having Scipio Africanus, rather than Scipio Aemilianus, dream of his ancestors. This early Renaissance poet wrote Il Canzoniere.
ANSWER: Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca]
[10m] Cicero also credits Scipio Aemilianus with patronizing the “Scipionic Circle,” which included this comedic playwright of Phormio. This playwright adapted plays by Menander into The Brothers and The Self-Tormentor.
ANSWER: Terence [or Publius Terentius Afer]
<TM, European Literature>