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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... Nature , of Love , of her friendly stars . ] Sofronia's description earlier as " matura verginità " ( 2.14.1–2 , already cited ) recalls the Virgin Mother , as such critics as Naomi Yavneh ( 1993 , 150 ) have observed . The veil with ...
... Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe " ( 9.782-83 ) . We may be reminded by this detail of the consequence of Tancredi's failure in the " Wood of Error " ( Gerusa- lemme liberata 13.52-69 , discussed in ...
... natural philosophy in The Faerie Queene ( cf. the earlier study of “ neo - Platonism in Spenser's poetry ” in Ellrodt 1960 ) . More gener- ally , among the numerous studies of the nature , sources , and structure of Spenserean allegory ...
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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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