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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... observes that " there was nothing else but for Aeneas to leave Dido , as we revealed in our allegory on how the excellent man was warned by Jove through Mercury , which is to say that through doctrine he learned to move from the active ...
... observes that this passage in the Africa is inspired by the simi- lar lines from Vergil's Aeneid , but his only assessment of the parallel is that it " give [ s ] a new cohesion to the context in Petrarch ” ( 1979 , 295 ) . Cf ...
... observes that her variety is mirrored by Rinaldo , who “ is another Antony , or another Aeneas as Mercury finds him in Carthage , or another Ruggiero as Melissa finds him in the seventh canto of Orlando Furioso . " Fichter adds that ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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