Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England
by
Ramie Targoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven—Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissance...