Adonis : The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Caruso, Carlo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Subjects:	Italian literature > History and criticism. Adonis (Greek deity) in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. ART / History / General.

Table of Contents:

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.