Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance

by Don Cameron Allen

Book Overview

Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421435276
• ISBN13: 9781421435275
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"