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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... interpreting the vernacular epics ' aims , methods , and meanings . In that sense , this new approach to the epic promises ... interpretation of allegorical epic shared with medieval scriptural exegesis , in order to underscore just how ...
... interpretation of the Aeneid : the good man has attained the final stage of his progress ; his good- ness is fully mature . It is a mark of this maturity that Aeneas is not really thinking about the city that he is in the process of ...
... Interpretation . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Hathaway , Baxter . 1962. The Age of Criticism : The Late Renaissance in Italy . Ithaca : Cor- nell University Press . Heitmann , Klaus . 1960. “ Augustins Lehre in ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
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