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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... suggest . As Jorunn Buckley has shown , the idea that heaven may be " accessible " to these devout males " through paradox or a negative via " pervades Chris- tian discourse on the nature of woman as early as Gnostic texts of late ...
... suggest that the love for Laura was ennobling , at least in a liter- ary or humanistic sense " ( 40 ) . As other scholars have rightly emphasized , Petrarch's moral universe was wholly , traditionally Christian - such that we always ...
... suggest , in an allusion to Petrarch's Africa that defines his calling as a poet in con- tradistinction to Petrarch's culpa.36 It occurs in book 8 of Paradise Lost , during Adam's appeal to God to repair his initial , solitary condition ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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