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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... turn his thoughts to God . Amico , altri pensieri , altri lamenti , per più alta cagione il tempo chiede . Ché non pensi a tue colpe ? e non rammenti qual Dio prometta a i buoni ampia mercede ? Soffri in suo nome , e fian dolci i ...
... turn to prayer , for instance , faithful and alert readers will already have rec- ognized that however much Christ's betrayer is " sick of gazing on the vault of heaven , " and despite Dido's precedent in taking her own life when she ...
... turn , must measure himself against the hero's response " ( 48 ) —— just as " our response , " in reading Paradise Lost , " measures us " ( 271 ) . But this is a Vergilian precedent found in many texts other than Vergil's , as we have ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
Copyright | |
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