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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... example , in his commentary at the word " Mater " in Aeneid 1.314 , where Venus appears before her son in the garb of a huntress , he writes : " Why Venus reveals herself to her son as a goddess when Troy is burning and here as a ...
... example for Milton.1 The relative neglect of Vida's Christiad today stands in complete con- trast to the sixteenth century's enthusiasm . Appearing on the heels of a number of short biblical poems in epic meter , the most familiar being ...
... example ; the Corona Borealis is Christ's crown of thorns ; Cassiopeia is Mary Magde- line ; Auriga is St. Jerome ; Cygnus is St. Helena with Christ's cross . The Old Testament supplies the names for the southern hemisphere : Apis is ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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