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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... sense is that which leads the thought of the exegete ' upwards , ' Lubac explains ; " it leads the mind's consideration ' from things visible to those invisible , ' or from things below ' to the things above . " " Just as we recognize ...
... sense " ( 40 ) . As other scholars have rightly emphasized , Petrarch's moral universe was wholly , traditionally Christian - such that we always find him compelled to define anything that is ennobling in a lit- erary or humanistic sense ...
... sense that Jerusalem is the destination of their long " crossing " from Europe to the Middle East . The phrase " gran passaggio " clearly encourages us not to take the sense so plainly but to think of the " great crossing " to " la ...
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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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