Adonis
Subtitle: The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance
By: Carlo Caruso
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic; Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781780932149; 9781472538819; 9781472538826
Subjects: Italian literature; History and criticism; In literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; ART / History / General
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"--

"A detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in the Italian literary culture of the Renaissance and early Baroque"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Table of contents:PrefaceIntroduction1. An ancient myth revisited: Adonis as citrus tree2. Adonis and the Renaissance idyll3. Adonis in sixteenth-century mythography 4. G.B. Marino's 'Adone' (1): From pastoral to epic poetry5. G.B. Marino's 'Adone' (2): The king's poem6. The seventeenth-century aftermathBibliographyIndex of manuscriptsIndex of names.