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 ( 1590–1654 ) . Born and educated in Scotland , Ross emigrated to England to serve as a school- master in Southampton , was later ordained an Anglican chaplain , and is generally remembered today , when he is remembered at all ...
... 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 hooked was a queer heretical fish , and Hobbes the very type of heresiarch ; Ross called him an Anthropomorphist , Sabellian , Nestorian , Sadducean , Arabian , Tacian , Manichee , Mohammedan , Cerinthian , Tertullianist , Audean ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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