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Adonis :

(Number (ISBN

1780932146 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781780932149 (hardback)

Erroneous ISBN

1472538811 (ePub)

Erroneous ISBN

147253882X (ePDF)

Erroneous ISBN

9781472538819 (ePub)

Erroneous ISBN

9781472538826 (ePDF)

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b432170

Title Proper

Adonis :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance /

First Statement of Responsibility

Carlo Caruso

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 219 pages :

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illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-194) and indexes

Text of Note

Introduction --1. An ancient myth revisited: Adonis as citrus tree -- 2. Adonis and the Renaissance idyll -- 3. Adonis in sixteenth-century mythography -- 4. Giovan Battista Marino's 'Adone' (i): From pastoral to epic poem -- 5. Giovan Battosta Marino's 'Adone' (ii): The king's poem -- 6. The seventeenth-century aftermath

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"A detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in the Italian literary culture of the Renaissance and early Baroque"--

Text of Note

"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 poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias. Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B. Marino's (1569-1625) Adone, published in Paris in 1623 to celebrate the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with regard to the throne of France"--

Adonis-- In literature

Italian literature-- History and criticism

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Caruso, Carlo

Date of Transaction

20140505092646.0

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