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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... tears that he himself weeps , because they are not sincerely tears of contrition . A praiseworthy application of this allusion would have been such as that which Petrarch knew from The City of God , where Augustine writes : The mind ...
... tears of repentance in this poem , tears that for too long he held back while his " mad mind was deceived , " which can only refer to the mad desire for Laura that he has since renounced . Because that battle is won , he is now in a ...
... tears and scolding words , but like Aeneas after Mercury's warning , Rinaldo stifles his emotions and is firm of purpose : 38 resiste e vince ; e in lui trova impedita Amor l'entrata , il lagrimar l'uscita . Non entra Amor a rinovar nel ...
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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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