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... figures by focusing attention on the players and the onlookers . To complain , as some do , that the poem is not didactically adequate seems ungracious.15 Indeed , the reader is never aware that he is not being taught how to play chess ...
... figures by focusing attention on the players and the onlookers . To complain , as some do , that the poem is not didactically adequate seems ungracious.15 Indeed , the reader is never aware that he is not being taught how to play chess ...
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... figures , between figures of thought and figures of speech , and , among figures of speech , between grammatical figures and rhetorical figures . " Ars poetica III begins with a general discussion of metaphor , paying only brief ...
... figures , between figures of thought and figures of speech , and , among figures of speech , between grammatical figures and rhetorical figures . " Ars poetica III begins with a general discussion of metaphor , paying only brief ...
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... figures and tropes , or between various kinds ; he refers offhandedly to the teacher for technical details ; he blithely disregards the lists common to handbooks of poetic and rhetoric . When he turns from figures to that talent without ...
... figures and tropes , or between various kinds ; he refers offhandedly to the teacher for technical details ; he blithely disregards the lists common to handbooks of poetic and rhetoric . When he turns from figures to that talent without ...
Contents
LIFE AND WORKS | 1 |
VIDAs Ars poetica AND VERGILIAN HUMANISM | 40 |
THE VERGILIAN FRAMEWORK | 87 |
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Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid Alberson allegory allusion angels Apostles Ascension atque attempts Bembo Book character Christ Christiad Christian epic Cicchitelli classical clearly contrast Cremona critics Dante death devils diction discourse divine earth echoes edition effect ekphrasis elegance epic poetry episode exile Father Gatta Gospel GSLI Harrowing of Hell haud heaven hell hero Homer human humanists hymn Iliad imagery imitation Improperia ingens ipse Jerusalem Jews John Joseph Judas Juvencus Landino Last Supper Latin lines M. G. Vida magis Mary mihi moral Moroncini narrative Novati nunc Old Testament omnes omnia pagan passage pater Petrarch Pilate Pilate's poem poet poetica poetry Politia priests prophecy quae quam Quattrocento Quintilian quod rerum Roman Rome Salutati Sannazaro says scene semper similes spirit Statius structure style suggests symbolic temple thematic theme tibi tradition Trojans Turnus Vegio Vergil Vergilian Vida's Vida's epic whole words Zabughin Zumbini