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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... discussion of this passage's basis in Aeneid 4.331ff . and 4.393–96 , see Gia- matti 1966 , 208-9 . 39. On Armida's " sweet poison " of Venus and her several associations with myrtle as both the tree of Venus and the tree of death , see ...
... discussion of Ross's poem , for which see Lauder 1750 , 94–102 . In Ross 1987 , 46 n . 45 , Glenn provides a bibliography of Lauder's publications and Milton's defenders . 8. Proba 1981 , 6. For a time , there was some controversy over ...
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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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