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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... contexts in which they occur , to elicit inap- propriate , " earthly " responses based on the implications of their ... context . Again , this should not strike us as a specialized operation : inherent in every allusion is some level of ...
... context with Christ's story or , what is more challenging , by recognizing how values and feelings that were associated with the Vergilian context are given new meaning and justification in the new context of the Christiad . An instance ...
... context of Landino's interpretive theory and practice , see James Hankins's useful " typology of reading in the fifteenth century " ( 1990 , 1 : 18-25 ) . 38. O divinum ingenium ! O virum inter rarissimos viros omnino excellentem et ...
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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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