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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... Venus , however , the goddess of lust , is carnal concupiscence which is the mother of all fornications.19 Bernard advises us to stay alert to Venus's shifting identity , to distinguish between the love goddess who " sometimes ...
... Venus has cast to shield him from Carthaginian eyes until a propitious moment for his appearance in the city . Bernard explains : “ just as a cloud obscures light , so too does igno- rance obscure wisdom " ; therefore , " in ignorance ...
... Venus " ( De duobus amoris generisbus , ac de duplici Venere [ 2.7 ] ) . 32 Here Ficino repeats the conventional idea that " Venus is two - fold , " and he defines her two aspects in a manner that reflects his assumption of a basic ...
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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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