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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... Aeneas moving from infancy through adolescence to maturity over the course of his adventures . In book 4 , we are told , Aeneas is in the " blindness of adolescence , " and with his " soul on holiday from paternal control , " he " goes ...
... Aeneas and Lavinia had extended into its ninth day , " then the great hero Aeneas began to inscribe a city with curved plough , and he established homes and trenches enclosed by a rampart " ( tum maximus heros / Aeneas urbem curvo ...
... Aeneas into the underworld . It is Aeneas's exceptional piety that qualifies him for that jour- ney and for the reunion with his father that awaits him in the Elysian Fields of the underworld ; in contrast , the first parents ' act of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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