Completing the Virgilian Marriage Plot: Ariosto and the Broken Flowers of Epic.
This paper explores the continuation of the Virgilian marriage plot in works such as Mapheus Vegius's Supplement to Virgil's Aeneid, showing how the reintegration of erotic love and dynastic marriage responds to particular cultural concerns of the late medieval and early modern period. My argument c...
| Publicado en: | Italian Studies Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 7 - 33 |
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