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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... Ross's time , not the Ptolemaic but Tycho Brahe's compromise geocentric scheme then in favor at Rome ) . Similarly , the seventeenth - century philosophical controversy over Thomas Hobbes's mechanist materialism was little affected by ...
... Ross's career , an assessment of the whole of Ross's scholarly output that leaves a more favorable impres- sion of his intelligence , learning , and talents than do most previous biogra- phies and studies ( see Ross 1987 , 1–59 ) . Even ...
... Ross's epic ) . Perhaps Ross's most immediate inspiration for his cento was Lelio Capilupi's Cento ex Vergilio de vita mona- chorum ( 1555 ) , a short satire on monks that was reprinted in Edinburgh in 1565 and translated into English ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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