The Poetic Theology of Love: Cupid in Renaissance LiteratureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1986 - 212 This book argues that current criticism tends to take the mythology of love either too innocently or too skeptically and therefore distorts the complex roles played by the god of love in longer narrative poems and discursive works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. |
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Acknowledgments | 8 |
Medieval Developments | 29 |
The Vita Nuova and the Trionfi | 45 |
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