| Adonis Contributor(s): Caruso, Carlo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474244033 ISBN-13: 9781474244039 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Literary Criticism | European - Italian - Art | History - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 850.938 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.73 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Caruso, Carlo: - Carlo Caruso has published widely in the areas of the classical tradition, the history of verse forms, literature and the arts from humanism to neo-classicism, literature and myth, literature and music, comparative literature (particularly Anglo-Italian), travel literature and the history of scholarship. He is the author of critical editions of Paolo Rolli, Libretti per musica; Paolo Giovio, Ritratti, and Diomede Borghese, Orazioni accademiche. |