Lupa in fabula: Figures of Threat in the Pastoral World

Authors

  • Emma Herdman Worcester College, Oxford

Abstract

"This article sets out to examine the allegorical representation of political threat in the pastoral verse of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and to trace its influence over pastoral allegories of religious threat in the sixteenth century....three figures have been identified which may respectively be considered emblematic of the physical, political, and ideological threats posed to the pastoral world: namely the Wolf, the Cyclops, and the Whore of Babylon."

Published

2006-03-19

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Section

Articles