The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to MiltonThe Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of Renaissance epics both famous and forgotten—from Milton's Paradise Lost to a Latin Christiad by his near-contemporary, Alexander Ross—thereby shedding new light on the development of the epic genre. For advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of Italian, English, and Comparative literatures as well as the Classics and the history of religion and literature. |
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... gods were demanding . But a " youth , " Marcus Curtius , then states the right meaning of the priests ' instructions : " our excellence and our arms " are Rome's most valuable gift from the gods , he tells them , adding , " These true ...
J. Christopher Warner. either truly God or a true son of a god ! ” — either is true [ i.e. , not one or the other is true ] ... God's voice thunder from the heavens : " Spare God , Roman , and curb the madness of men " ( Parce Deo Romane ...
... God who stands before him in the flesh , not the pagan gods ( or " sky - dwellers ” ) and certainly not the penates ( household gods ) , such as Aeneas safeguards on his journey to Italy . Put another way , the allusion to Vergil ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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