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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... allusion that Tasso intends for us to measure the Christian army's noble desire to capture Jerusalem against Dido's utter surrender to an ignoble love . But to accept that positive reading of these stanzas is to ignore the possibility ...
... allusion to Scipio that makes clearest sense when we perceive it as an allusion to Petrarch's Africa . As such , it signals the manner in which Paradise Lost repudiates the formula by which the Africa responds to Augustine's warn- ings ...
... allusions in Paradise Lost to the allegorical tradition's " doctrine of the two Venuses , " the scheme of " the two ... allusion's long his- tory within the allegorical tradition . Adam's reaction to Eve's story mimics the response of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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