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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... Christ's mortality , the contrast between Aeneas and Christ is achieved without such a reversal of Vergil's words ( i.e. , from " non sponte " to " sua sponte ” ) . id enim matris de corpore traxit , Ut quaecunque hominum mortalia ...
... Christ's betrayer is " sick of gazing on the vault of heaven , " and despite Dido's precedent in taking her own life when she was described in the same state of despair and helplessness , Judas is mad to dwell in his misery rather than ...
... Christ's - and we are required to mark the absolute distinction between them . Unlike our interpretation of Tasso's warriors , we must not allow Dido's culpa , through association , to diminish at all our confidence in Christ's ...
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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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