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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... editions in Venice , Strasbourg , and Paris , besides its inclusion in the two editions of Vergil's works printed in Basel , mentioned earlier.70 It has yet to be considered to what extent the Basel edition of 1577 , in which Landino's ...
... edition of the Mystagogus Poeticus ( 1647 ) —a compendium of classical myths and their allegorical interpretation that is , today , Ross's most frequently cited work in Milton studies - there has been little indica- tion of any renewed ...
... editions of Vergil's works that contain his commentary . ... 71. Citations of Fabrini's commentary are from the 1588 Venice edition of Vergil's L'opere ( no . 121 in Kallendorf 1991 ) , with my translations . In this edition ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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