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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... allegorical interpretation required of them . I would only go farther than this basic definition to note two major features that the interpretation of allegorical epic shared with medieval scriptural exegesis , in order to underscore ...
... allegory in the fact " that they presumed to reside in the history itself . The other feature that is shared by allegorical epics and medieval bibli- cal exegesis is their ultimate goal in " anagogy , " the last stage of scripture's ...
... allegorical tale ever really ends , ” and he dismisses the question of whether The Faerie Queene is a fragment or a finished work . No allegorical poem was ever finished in our sense of the term ; and , therefore , it was quite ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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