Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives
This open access monograph sheds new light on the epic by focusing on its importance as a vector for ideas about Africa and Africans between the 14th and 20th centuries. In Italy and abroad, the 14th-century poet Petrarch’s Italian verse has secured his place in literary history. Yet his greatest tr...
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| description | This open access monograph sheds new light on the epic by focusing on its importance as a vector for ideas about Africa and Africans between the 14th and 20th centuries. In Italy and abroad, the 14th-century poet Petrarch’s Italian verse has secured his place in literary history. Yet his greatest triumph was to be crowned in Rome in 1341, ostensibly for his then incomplete Latin epic of the Second Punic War, the Africa . However, soon after the poem’s posthumous publication, the Africa fell into relative obscurity. The afterlives of the epic remain largely unexplored, particularly with regard to Petrarch’s representation of the Second Punic War and the continent on which Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal: Africa. The book also explores the contribution of the Africa to early modern and modern discourses of religion, nation and empire. Samuel Agbamu uncovers the role of the Africa in the intellectual archaeologies of nation, empire and race in the modern era and its role as a vector in the transmission and transformation of Roman ideas of empire and identity as reflected in accounts of the Punic War. This monograph makes its case through fresh close readings of the Africa , using new methodologies based on Premodern Critical Race Studies and Critical Muslim Studies. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Reading. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1778632026-06-22T05:25:49Z Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives Agbamu, Samuel Neo-Latin Classical reception Punic War Hannibal Scipio Roman Republic Critical race studies Macrobius Augustine Carthage Renaissance thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history::NHHA African history: pre-colonial period thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history This open access monograph sheds new light on the epic by focusing on its importance as a vector for ideas about Africa and Africans between the 14th and 20th centuries. In Italy and abroad, the 14th-century poet Petrarch’s Italian verse has secured his place in literary history. Yet his greatest triumph was to be crowned in Rome in 1341, ostensibly for his then incomplete Latin epic of the Second Punic War, the Africa . However, soon after the poem’s posthumous publication, the Africa fell into relative obscurity. The afterlives of the epic remain largely unexplored, particularly with regard to Petrarch’s representation of the Second Punic War and the continent on which Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal: Africa. The book also explores the contribution of the Africa to early modern and modern discourses of religion, nation and empire. Samuel Agbamu uncovers the role of the Africa in the intellectual archaeologies of nation, empire and race in the modern era and its role as a vector in the transmission and transformation of Roman ideas of empire and identity as reflected in accounts of the Punic War. This monograph makes its case through fresh close readings of the Africa , using new methodologies based on Premodern Critical Race Studies and Critical Muslim Studies. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Reading. 2026-06-22T05:25:47Z 2026-06-22T05:25:47Z 2026-06-21T09:16:11Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781350330801_66 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350330825?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114192 9781350330801 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177863 eng Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114192/1/9781350330801.pdf Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350330801 Bloomsbury Academic 224 London open access |
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