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Adonis - The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance (Paperback)
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Adonis - The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance (Paperback)
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In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical
times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both
literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which
secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern
revival of Classical mythology. While aiming to provide this
general outline of the myth's fortunes in the Early Modern age, the
book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most
of the original research included in the work has been conducted.
First, the myth's earliest significant revival in the age of
Italian Humanism, and particularly in the poetry of the great Latin
poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of
syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of
authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias.
Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B.
Marino's (1569-1625) Adone, published in Paris in 1623 to celebrate
the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with regard to
the throne of France.
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