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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... human body first meets our eyes , the mind , which is the first Venus in us , worships and adores the human beauty as an image of the divine beauty , and through the first , it is frequently aroused to the second . But the power of ...
... human affairs . Therefore , although it knows that what the desire to rule urges is false , it yet assents , whether because it is now entangled in that desire , or because it is moved by pity for those who must be helped.58 Note the ...
... human brain . Portas : the three chambers . We come to heavenly contemplation by exercising wit , reason and memory . Adverso : Aeneas turns his head and looks to heaven . Hec ubi : at the gates , since Aeneas and the Sibyl are ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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