Carlo Caruso

Adonis

The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance

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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 p… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4725-3882-6
EAN: 9781472538826
Produktnummer: 17037111
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'978 KB
Abbildungen: c. 7 bw illus

Über den Autor

Carlo Caruso is Professor of Italian Philology at the University of Siena, Italy. For Bloomsbury he has published Adonis: The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance (2013), and co-edited with Andrew Laird Italy and the Classical Tradition (2013).