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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... chapter ; Marilynn Desmond's important study Reading Dido : Gender , Textuality , and the Medieval Aeneid , informs my analyses particularly in chapter 2 ; the most in - depth study of Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad , the subject of my ...
... chapter and the next , therefore , I propose to explain how Vida and Ross work not allegorically but ( as I put it in the introduction ) rhetorically , meaning suasively , seductively . Yet the emphasis of these chapters is on ...
J. Christopher Warner. CHAPTER FIVE Vergil the Evangelist The Christiad of Alexander Ross TOLLE LEGE The Christiad that is the subject of this chapter represents nothing less than the ultimate Augustinian conversion of the epic form ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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