TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comparetti,Domenico
AU  - Benecke,E.F.M.
AU  - Ziolkowski,Jan M.
TI  - Vergil in the Middle Ages
SN  - 9780691231242
U1  - 873.01 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeneid
KW  - Ars Notoria
KW  - Be Continentia
KW  - Caesar
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Cronica di Partenope
KW  - De Viris Illustrious
KW  - Diable boiteux
KW  - Divina Commedia
KW  - Dolopathos
KW  - European literature
KW  - Gesta Bomanorum
KW  - Gleomades
KW  - Golden Legend
KW  - Holy Scriptures
KW  - Mirabilia
KW  - Mons Virginum
KW  - Mutatorium Caesaris
KW  - Mythologicon
KW  - Nodes Atticae
KW  - Novellino
KW  - Otia Imperialia
KW  - Parzival
KW  - Polycraticus
KW  - Quaestiones Naturales
KW  - Renart contrefait
KW  - Salvatio Bomae
KW  - Sette Savi
KW  - Speculum historale
KW  - Vergilian poems
KW  - Wunderkind
KW  - a propos
KW  - cantores francigenarum
KW  - ecclesiastical
KW  - enthusiasm
KW  - grammatical works
KW  - habundantia
KW  - imaginem
KW  - intellectual productivity
KW  - lofty speculations
KW  - movements
KW  - occidentation
KW  - par excellence
KW  - scholasticism
KW  - spontaneous expansion
KW  - sufficiently
KW  - true knowledge
KW  - vere glisceus
KW  - vice versa
KW  - volgare illustre
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Introduction --; Author's Preface to the First Edition --; PART I. THE VERGIL OF LITERARY TRADITION --; PART II. THE VERGIL OF POPULAR LEGEND; restricted access
N2  - From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet. Scholars of the time had transformed Vergil into a sage and a seer, a type of universal philosopher--even a Christian poet and a guide of a Christian poet. In the mid-twelfth century, there surfaced legends that converted Vergil into a magician, endowing him with supernatural powers. Comparetti explores the ongoing interest in Vergil's poetry as it appeared in popular folklore and legends as well as in medieval classical scholarship. This great synthesizing work, which has been unavailable for over twenty years, is now back in print, based on E.F.M. Benecke's 1895 translation of the Italian second edition. Comparetti begins with the period in which Vergil lived and goes on to evaluate how the later images, particularly the legends, of Vergil coincide with the more scholarly accounts of his life. The result is a grand sweep of literary history from the first century B.C.E. through the end of the Middle Ages, with implications for the nineteenth century and the rise of Italian nationalism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691231242?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691231242
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