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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... Laura and his love for the glory that he wins through his literary achievements . Augustine urges Petrarch to free his soul from these earthly bonds , to devote himself wholly to God , but Petrarch cannot do so without struggling ...
... Laura , however , Freccero's powerful reading of the Canzoniere depends upon a contradiction of its own . He claims that the " narcissistic lover finds spiritual death " in Laura's eyes — indeed , that she is an " Anti - Christ " ( 39 ) ...
... Laura and that Laura sets him burning with desire . But the distinction is functional . If lover and beloved share one flame that has its source in the beloved , the figural justification for Laura's quasi - mediatrix effect on the poet ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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