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Author Kallendorf, Craig

Title The Other Virgil : Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture
Published Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Series Classical Presences
Classical presences.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Virgil. Aeneid
SUBJECT Aeneas (Legendary character) fast
Aeneis (Virgil) fast
Subject Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Epic poetry, Latin
Literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191526428
0191526428
9780199212361
0199212368