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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... Polydorus's fate in Vida's Christiad and in this scene in Paradise Lost likewise look ahead to Christ's sacrifice of his " holy blood " on a " tree . ” As God had explained to the Son earlier in Milton's poem , that death will , by ...
... Polydorus through Dante and Ariosto to Tasso , these lines already invite us to recognize the specific cupidity that is in our young knight's heart and to comprehend its figurative relation to every other form of sin to be enumerated in ...
... Polydorus episode in Inferno 13 for the purpose of highlighting the unbridgeable gap between Vergil's con- ception of pietas and Dante's in the Christian age , see Biow 1991. See also Spitzer 1942 , to which nearly all contemporary ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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