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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... Mary's blush is prescribed by Lavinia's role in the Vergilian commentary and in Vegio's Supplement , where she is both an exemplum of chastity and , in the allegorical interpretation of her marriage to Aeneas , a marker of the good man ...
... Mary's , to imagine them as " sisters in sorrow , " then the quality of the pity one feels for Mary has been debased . Ideally , Vida will not have had to remind any of the Christiad's readers that no suffering is to be compared to Mary's ...
... Mary's blush " was the prophets ' prayers for a sign that would identify her chosen husband . On either side of the allusion to Lavinia in Ross's poem , however , the portrait of Mary and the Christ child is composed of readily ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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