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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... soul with her up above the air " ( laeta recentem / felicemque animam secum super aera duxit [ 627–28 ] ) . Aeneas's " happy soul " in these lines finally supplies the resolution that had been lacking the positive counterimage not only ...
... souls in the realm of the suicides ( Inferno 13 ) . Tancredi strikes the tree , which bleeds and speaks to him in the voice of Clorinda , telling him that these trees lodge not only her soul " but every other too , pagan or Frank , that ...
... soul , as opposed to the " lesser glory " of a physician , which is really more useful because it aids the bodies of his patients and , as the means of his good works , testifies to his soul's good health . But the statement of contrast ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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