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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... recognizing her in the borrowed armor that she wears , he slays her . With Clorinda's dying breaths , she feels a " spirit of faith , of charity , of hope : a grace that God now sheds upon her " ( spirto di fé , di carità , di speme ...
... recognize . Cresce il gran foco , e ' n forma d'alte mura stende le fiamme torbide e fumanti ; e ne cinge quel bosco , e l'assecura ch'altri gli arbori suoi non tronchi e schianti . Le maggiori sue fiamme hanno figura di castelli ...
... recognize the specific cupidity that is in our young knight's heart and to comprehend its figurative relation to every other form of sin to be enumerated in The Faerie Queene . " In the Orlando Furioso , as Ruggiero learns from the ...
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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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