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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... mother of all fornications.19 Bernard advises us to stay alert to Venus's shifting identity , to distinguish between the love goddess who " sometimes designates concupiscence of the flesh " but at other times represents " the concord of ...
... mother announced that Mary must soon be married ( as it was determined by prophets consulted long beforehand ) , the ... mother's protest that her daughter cannot marry the newly arrived Trojan chief but must be given to Turnus . accepit ...
... Mother . In Vida's poem , we recall , the occasion of " Mary's blush " was the prophets ' prayers for a sign that ... mother's embrace while she " imprints sweet kisses " is at once recognized as having come from Venus's speech to Cupid ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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