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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... final two stanzas of the same canto that contains the story of Sofronia and Olindo , in a passage that includes a near - direct translation of lines from Aeneid 4. Tasso describes the peaceful evening before the Christian army's final ...
... final victory that Redcrosse enjoys , nor do we even expect as much clarity in the outcome of the other knights ' legends , because theirs are lesser stages of progress tenu- ously won in the unpredictable world of Faerie . We follow ...
... final refer- ent of his creation " ; she " is both creation and creator , the uninterested Laura and the ' author ' of the Petrarchan lover - like projections of Goffredo's men " ( 1993 , 148 ) . In a dif- ferent assessment of her ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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