Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.