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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... passage has been " oddly and frequently taken to indicate Augustine's sympathy for Dido " ; she rightly emphasizes that its aim is " to illustrate his poor spiritual state in those days " ( 1994 , 881 ) . For references to this passage ...
... passage , " The woman referred to is Dido " ( Petrarch 1977a , 243 ) . 48. Venus's guile is a trait that Aeneas himself objects to , in a passage from the Aeneid that is alluded to frequently in the other epics discussed in the chapters ...
... passage ) , only Ross's citation of a particular book number is provided . References in parentheses provide the actual book and line number of Ross's source when the book indicated seems an error ( e.g. , the twelfth line of this passage ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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