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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... analogy with the activity of differentiating opposing images of dan- gerous woman and female divinity : Laura versus Beatrice or Mary ; the " vulgar " versus the " heavenly " Venus ; Eve versus the " second Eve " who redeems the sins of ...
... analogy and the book of nature . " She continues : " Raphael sets forth a hierarchical structure by which our bodies ... analogies but through leaps of faith and flashes of revelation . In Raphael's universe and pedagogy , things expand ...
... Analogy of The Faerie Queene . Princeton : Princeton Uni- versity Press . O'Connell , Michael . 1983. " Authority and the Truth of Experience in Petrarch's ' Ascent of Mount Ventoux . " " Philological Quarterly 62 : 507-20 . Ogilvy ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Renaissance Allegories of the Aeneid | 51 |
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