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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... quod terra cavernis Evomit , aut lectis inter deserta lapillis . Unum ego vos moneo : nobis virtute vel armis Nil melius tribuisse deos : hec summa profecto , Hec vere Romana bona , et si summa reposcunt , Arma virumque dabo ! " Dicens ...
... quod etiam viri fortes ex voluptate generantur et quod singularis quedam illi fuerit venustas , qua , exul atque inops , castis etiam oculis placuisse describitur ( 81 , 83 ) . 29. In the Secretum , Petrarch mentions this allegorical ...
... quod hic poeticis angustiis non coarctet ? ( Landino 1980 , 175 ) . Subse- quent citations of the Disputationes Camaldulenses are also from the edition cited here , and the translations are mine , although I have at times benefited from ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Petrarchs Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa | 20 |
Petrarchs Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata | 74 |
Copyright | |
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