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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... true Roman virtues are with- out question our greatest possessions . " The distinction , then , is between what genuinely is most valuable to Rome , on the one hand , and , on the other , what many Romans mistakenly most value . The ...
... true [ i.e. , not one or the other is true ] , for he is God and the Son of God.19 As long as Pilate continues to think in terms of alternatives , to accept the possibility that there can be gods instead of just one God , he will ...
... true of Dido's , when we recall her role in the alle- gorized Aeneid and allegorical epics : her culpa and theirs represent all the ignoble passions , all unholy desires . Milton invokes the celestial Venus when the Creator replies to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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