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Record Nr.

UNISA996209837603316

Autore

Kallendorf Craig

Titolo

The other Virgil [[electronic resource] ] : 'pessimistic' readings of the Aeneid in early modern culture / / Craig Kallendorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-160739-8

1-281-16091-1

9786611160913

0-19-152642-8

1-4356-3105-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Disciplina

873.01

Soggetti

Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature

Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Marginalization; 2. Colonization; 3. Revolution; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Manuscripts of Filelfo's Sphortias; Appendix 2. Filelfo's Virgilian Studies; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show howthey used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done ce