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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... lust that is briefly indulged before being controlled , but Petrarch extends that allegory of man's battle against lust from the first to the very last event in the poem . An overview of this unique characteristic of Petrarch's ...
... Lust is not dead ; it will return to threaten the " good man " again in the form of Turnus . The two images of a ... lust , Hannibal is likened to a victim of lust , becoming a case in point for a dictum stated earlier in the Africa ...
... lust being the climactic event in this progress . That idea is underscored in the meeting between Aeneas and the spirit of Dido in book 6 , where Fulgentius tells us that " Dido is seen , a shade now void of passion and its former lust ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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