The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance

Table of contents: Preface Introduction 1. An ancient myth revisited: Adonis as citrus tree 2. Adonis and the Renaissance idyll 3. Adonis in sixteenth-century mythography 4. G.B. Marino's 'Adone' (1): From pastoral to epic poetry 5. G.B. Marino's 'Adone' (2): The king's poem 6. The seventeenth-century aftermath Bibliography Index of manuscripts Index of name