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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... represents " the victory of praiseworthy virtue over damnable vice " ( 53 ) . Petrarch invites us to be more precise than this . Scipio is to Hannibal as Aeneas is to Turnus because Scipio represents the virtuous man and Hannibal ...
... represents " the purgation of our soul , " 14 similar to Landino's claim that the mature Aeneas arrives in Italy with " the kind of virtues that are called purgative . " 15 And in the 1590 edition that contained the commen- taries of ...
... represents the mind's confusion , the will divided from itself , while each of her facets singly represents an idol that each errant soldier makes of her.36 More precisely still , Armida symbolizes love of self over love of God , for ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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