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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... Adam “ her story told . " But in her Cheek distemper flushing glow'd . On th ' other side , Adam , soon as he heard The fatal Trespass done by Eve , amaz'd , Astonied stood and Blank , while horror chill Ran through his veins , and all ...
... Adam . " Goffredo's dream meeting with Hugh in Gerusalemme liberata is also a model , but more similar to Adam's experience is Scipio's dream in the Africa , which is based more closely than Tasso's on its Ciceronian source ( and ...
... Adam's instruc- tion under Michael . The major milestone in Adam's progress occurs in his response , after a vision of the Flood , to " a Bow / Conspicuous with three listed colors gay . " Milton informs us that this rainbow " Betok'n ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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