Virgil in the Renaissance(English, Hardcover, Wilson-Okamura David Scott)

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Virgil in the Renaissance(English, Hardcover, Wilson-Okamura David Scott) is written by Wilson-Okamura David Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521198127 (ISBN 10) and 9780521198127 (ISBN 13).

The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.