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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... writing Vergilian epic as a personal conversion narrative and , like the Con- fessions , a ministering instrument.1 ... writings ; by Vergil's Aeneid when it is read according to the explications of medieval and Renaissance allegorical ...
... writing the poem . This statement , as we would expect , is as equivocal as the conclusion of the Secretum . There Petrarch admitted to Augustine that it would be best for him to abandon his writings even as he hurried off to complete ...
... writings - that " Augustine , for Petrarch , is only another pagan writer , more in the line of Pygmalion , with gods always within reach listening to his prayers , and always prepared to make his wishes real ” ( 145 ) . Cf. the very ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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