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Virgil in the Renaissance (Paperback)
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Virgil in the Renaissance (Paperback)
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The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their
modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for
many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in
this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were
recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades
between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and
Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if
any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of
his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators?
Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this
book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from
across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and
poetry.
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