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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... Secretum . Lady Truth there reminds Augustine of this , telling him : " When you were locked up in the prison of the body , you suffered much the same as he does . That being so makes you the best physician to cure these passions that ...
... Secretum between himself and St. Augustine " ( 1962 , 150 ) . Unlike Scipio , however , Augustine counsels Petrarch in the Secretum from the position of one who has indulged his lusts before he was able to overcome them . When he ...
... Secretum , see Heitmann 1960 and , with a specific focus on Augus- tine's demand that Petrarch abandon the Africa , Martinelli 1983. For analyses of his role from the perspective that the Secretum testifies to the " crisi psicologico ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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