The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton
Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco G...
| Résumé: | Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0472115189 |