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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... moral authority , the voice of a public self who finally confesses his past errors and disavows them , " Mazzotta explains , critics , " with few exceptions , " have perceived that the " extended ironies " of the sequence " disrupt the ...
... moral or physical form of interpretation " ; on the other hand , in the annotations of Servius - who " introduces the very important word ' polysemus ' into the critical vocabulary of Europe ” in his explication of the Aeneid's very ...
... moral failing ( as it was of Judas's ) than is the same phrase applied to Dido , for they have known the goodness of God and yet they run away from him , seeking to hide from his anger rather than abandoning themselves to his will and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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