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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... Christian and pagan allegory , if they use a certain number of analogous procedures , are nonetheless two functionally heterogeneous things " ( 1959 , 2 : 396 ; 2000 , 19 ) . Christian - specifically Pauline - allegory , to begin with ...
... Christian conceptions of poetry " ( 43 ) , with Scipio being " either the instrument of a Christian Providence or the unconscious follower of the three Christian virtues [ i.e. , faith , hope , and charity ] " ( 63 ) . Indeed , he notes ...
... Christian for its hero , was due to be superseded by a new and definitive Christian epic . This chapter argues that Tasso took up that task : in Gerusalemme liberata , he rewrites the allegory of the Africa " completes it , " one might ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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