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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... POEM " In the Folger Shakespeare Library is a copy of one of the first editions of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata ... poem to explain the deeper , veiled meaning behind its " imitation of action , " directly under the essay's title ...
... poem clearly invokes Augustine's distinction , in The City of God , " between the earthly city of Babylon and the heavenly city Jerusalem , ” which supplies Tasso's poem with its contrasting " symbols of the ways in which the Christian ...
... poem that disclose instability and danger symptomatic of his cultural moment and indicative of his own second thoughts as he com- posed his epic . The desire for a snug fit between the allegory and the poem or between the history of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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